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In my understanding, many European cultures have compensated for the lack of certain characters on keyboards (especially old typewriters) by "anglicizing"“anglicizing” some characters. For example, the German ßß becomes ssss, the Danish (and others) ÅÅ becomes aaaa.

Is there a list, official or not, of these "compensations"“compensations”?

(And yes, I do realize that this could very well fit in any other language SE than English, but English would be the common trait to these).

In my understanding, many European cultures have compensated for the lack of certain characters on keyboards (especially old typewriters) by "anglicizing" some characters. For example, the German ß becomes ss, the Danish (and others) Å becomes aa.

Is there a list, official or not, of these "compensations"?

(And yes, I do realize that this could very well fit in any other language SE than English, but English would be the common trait to these).

In my understanding, many European cultures have compensated for the lack of certain characters on keyboards (especially old typewriters) by “anglicizing” some characters. For example, the German ß becomes ss, the Danish (and others) Å becomes aa.

Is there a list, official or not, of these “compensations”?

(And yes, I do realize that this could very well fit in any other language SE than English, but English would be the common trait to these).

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Anglicization of diacritical marks and non-English letters

In my understanding, many European cultures have compensated for the lack of certain characters on keyboards (especially old typewriters) by "anglicizing" some characters. For example, the German ß becomes ss, the Danish (and others) Å becomes aa.

Is there a list, official or not, of these "compensations"?

(And yes, I do realize that this could very well fit in any other language SE than English, but English would be the common trait to these).