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It's spelled blahaj because I, like most people, don't have an å (yeah, copied that out of the title) on my keyboard. Unless you want us to write blohaj instead, I guess.
Just hold down A!
Holds down A on desktop keyboard aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
TBF on desktop I could install a program (or possibly already have) that does the job, I just never got around to it.
Blåhaj.
I hold down the 'a' key and you can select it on Gboard. But your point stands, I don't expect everyone to make the effort of finding alternate language options.
Putting 'aa' instead of 'å' should also be fine.
Also if I’m typing it, I’m referring to the domain name, which I don’t think allows special characters. (Just thinking of registered DNS names allowing all ISO character sets, that would be a scammers paradise.)
ツ.gay
e: it’s real i promise
AfaIk, domain names may include special characters since a while.
Generally it's called punycode and is encoded as xn--SOMETHING. Browsers mostly mitigate those scammer paradise tricks by rendering the punycode domain as intended only if it contains characters from a single script. Like if it contains an å, then only other characters from languages that also have å are allowed.
They do now! Blåhaj.world (might not work in old browsers)
I use Unexpected Keyboard for Android and I can easily add the ˚ modificator to my keyboard.
blåhaj.
It's unexpected but pretty convenient!
Just write Blauhai
Blouhaai if you're from South Africa.
Blauwe Haai if you’re Dutch
Dieser Hai gehört nun der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
Technically you should write it blaahaj instead (if writing Norwegian or Danish, that is). Before the adoption of the Swedish å, aa used to be used in Norway and Denmark for the same sound.
So that's why it looks similar to a or ä. I've always wondered that if it makes an o sound, why doesn't it look like an O.
yeah, ä and æ get transcribed as ae and is a different sound.
Aj kudd traj tu eksplejn itt, bøtt Aj'll dsjøst lett the "æøå" viddijåo du the tåking. År singing, Aj gess.
Also it sounds more like the vowel group in the word 'awl' than an actual 'o'. Bit tricky to describe, really
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
Historically, 'Å' was an 'A' with an additional 'a' on top. This has evolved into becoming the '°'. Similarly, 'Ä' was an 'A' with an 'e' on top, which evolved into becoming two dots.
Interestingly, these umlauts are treated as extra characters in the Nordics but in German they aren't. That's why Swedish dictionaries are sorted from 'A-Ö' while German ones are 'A-Z'. So in order to find German Ärger or Swedish ängen, you need to look at different spots in the dictionary ('Ä' -> 'Ae' (1st letter of the German alphabet) vs. 'Ä' (28th letter of the Swedish alphabet).