On 28 Jan 2000, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: > the funniest convention failure I know of is "dør" in Norwegian (meaning > "door"); if you apply the "ø" -> "oe" mapping, it becomes "doer", meaning > "toilets". Interesting. I had no idea. There's nothing of that kind in Swedish, at least not that I can think of. I guess it wasn't a Norwegian who invented the convention. /Magnus