News Tino Didriksen on 27 Aug 2007 07:44
Don’t mind the boxes
Still in the process of polishing this site, so certain features may not work entirely as expected just yet.
So far comments from the old site has been transferred to the Feedback page in order to seperate them from the translation results.
on 07 Sep 2007 at 21:39:41 1.Louise Randolph said …
I appreciate your site as it is helping me with genealogy, my hobby.
I am wondering if you have some English substitutes for the “o” with the slash through it and the “a” with a little zero at the top. I have tried a ? but that doesn’t seem to work. (and what are they called?)
Thanks for your good work.
on 08 Sep 2007 at 17:22:54 2.Tino Didriksen said …
If you are unable to use the proper letters Ææ Øø Åå then Aa Oo Aa should work in most cases. We have a filter that corrects e.g. “prast” to the far more likely “præst” (priest/minister) because it knows “prast” does not occur in Danish and then finds candidates that could have been the result of a transliteration.
http://visl.dk/2007/05/diacritics-and-transliteration/ is an older news post regarding the filter.
As for what they are called, Wikipedia has some good articles:
Ææ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86
Øø: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98
Åå: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85