Å

That Å - small letter å is a letter of latin of alphabet. He comes among other things into , and in forwards.

Sorting in the alphabet

In the Swedish one the letter stands Å after that and before that ae in the alphabet, in the Danish one and Norwegian one he is the last letter of the alphabet.

In German it becomes simply under A sorted.

Occurrence

In the Danish one

In the Danish one the letter stands Å for the open, deep with a tendency to (long nordisches A), as it became in in former times Aa and/or. aa written, only Å one introduced.

In the Norwegian one and in the Swedish one

In the Norwegian one and in the Swedish one the letter stands Å for the vowel (like long/short German "o")

Other languages

• Å comes also into forwards.
• Å comes also in a Orthografie of the Nordfriesi forwards.
• Å some becomes the posting the German how Bairisch used.

Strange things

In Denmark the old Digraph Aa was replaced through Å, in names and place names how Åbenrå is however still frequently the old posting. A strange thing is the city Århus, which is written with Å, while in the name of the university of the city of the Digraph one maintained: Aarhus Universitet.

Also in the Norwegian one are still remainder to the old way of writing, which originates from the union time with Denmark. Thus the Norwegian successor to the throne is called "Haakon" (spoken "Hokun").

Representation on the computer

University code

In the international indication coding system large Å position takes the U+00C5, the small å lies on U+00E5. The same position has it also in the character set . In university code additionally still another special Ångstroem indication gives.

HTML

In HTML Å one shows as follows:

• Capital letter Å: Å
• Small letter å: å
• Ångstroem indication: Å (cannot be represented by each Browser)

TeX

In Å one shows as follows:

• Capital letter Å: \AA
• Small letter å: \aa

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