# How did this change in the Spanish alphabet affect software?

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**Created:** [April 5, 2022, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-this-change-in-the-spanish-alphabet-affect-software/962290 "2022-04-05T05:22:49Z")\
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> [@Hari\_Seldon](#):
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> The point is that the Danes alphabetize any word with aa in it as though it was å. I think they do the same with ae, as though it was æ. I am not sure what, if any, digraph can replace ø, maybe oe. But those three letters end the Danish alphabet, with å = aa the very last.

Ø is generally transliterated to OE when required, but both æ and ø were used as separate letters long before Å (introduced from Swedish) started taking over from Aa, so _in Danish (and Norwegian)_ they don’t show up as ae and oe the way Aa does. (The official introduction of Å was 1917 in Norway and 1948 in Denmark.)

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