Actually, the 'A with a circle' is the 27th character in the Swedish
alphabeth, and the 29th and last in Norwegian (it is pronounced as
'ou' in 'ought'). Neither of our languages interfere with the order of
the 'normal' 26 first characters.

To me, Angstrom also sounds more like a name desiring the Swedish
character A with two dots above (character no. 28, which sounds more
like an 'E' and doesn't quite exist in Norwegian) and not the circled
A (Ängström would translate to 'Fieldstream' or something), but I'm no
'Swedish spelling expert'.

Enough OT,
Set
-my surname contains a character that doesn't exist in Swedish, hence
I must be Norwegian

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, David Johnson wrote:
The A with a circle on top (Angstrom to english speakers) is just an
"A" to english speakers, but it is a distinct letter between A and B
in Norwegian and a distinct letter following about two places after Z
in Swedish (or maybe it's the other way around). In those languages,
it is not just a funny looking A - it is a semantically distinct
character that changes the pronunciation and meaning of the words it
appears in.