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In other languages that do not have the letter as part of the regular alphabet or in limited character sets such as ASCII, O-umlaut is frequently replaced with the two-letter combination "oe".
The Icelandic expression frá A til Ö and the Swedish one från A till Ö (both meaning "from A to Ö") are the equivalents of the English expression "from A to Z" or "from alpha to omega".
In Danish, Faroese and Norwegian, the letter Ø usually represents the same phoneme as in Swedish and Icelandic, although the Danish and Norwegian alphabet has a different collating order than the Swedish.
In Swedish, ö is a separate word by itself, meaning island, and as such occurring in many island names, like Öland (Island land) and Gotska Sandön (The Gotlandic sand island).
Note that unlike the O-umlaut, the letter Ö cannot be written as "oe". Minimal pairs exist between 'ö' and 'oe' (and also with 'oo', 'öö' and 'öe'). Consider Finnish eläinkö "animal?" (interrogative) vs. eläinkoe "animal test", or Finnish töissä "at work", toissa "before last" (cf. Germanic umlaut). In the case the character Ö is unavailable, O is substituted and context is relied upon for inference of the intended meaning.
It is collated as an independent letter, sometimes by placing it at the end of the alphabet. It is the last letter in the Finnish alphabet, after Z, Å and Ä, thus fulfilling the place of "omega", for example in the Finnish expression aasta ööhön "from A to Z". In Hungarian, in Turkish and other Turkic alphabets that have Ö, it is an independent letter between O and P.
In Estonian, öö means night.
In Seneca "ö" is used to represent , a back mid rounded nasalized vowel.
The Uralic phonetic alphabet uses <Ö> as in Finnish to denote the front vowel .
The extended ASCII code for capital Ö is 153 and for lowercase ö is 148; or in binary 10011001 and 10010100, correspondingly.
The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "Ö" and "ö" for upper and lower case respectively. The Entity Name s are "ö" and "Ö"
In some inscriptions and display typefaces, Ö may be represented as an O with a small letter E inside.
In modern typography there was insufficient space on typewriters and later computer keyboards to allow for both an O-with-dots (also representing Ö) and an O-with-bars. Since they looked near-identical the two glyphs were combined, which was also done in computer character encodings such as ISO 8859-1. As a result there was no way to differentiate between the different characters. While Unicode theoretically provides a solution, this is almost never used.
The HTML entity for Ö is Ö. For ö, it is ö (Mnemonic for "O umlaut").
The Unicode code point for ö is U+00F6. Ö is U+00D6.
In TeX, Ö and ö are produced using \"{O} and \"{o} respectively.
The numerical XML entity for Ö is Ö or Ö. For ö, it is ö or ö.
Hungarian alphabet contains both ö and ő: double acute o is the longer pair of ö. See double acute accent.
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