Will Danish special characters be abolished?

Denmark is discussing the suggestion to abolish the three characters æ, å and ø from the Danish alphabet so that Danes can surf the internet more easily. The newspaper comments: "Social Democrat Mogens Jensen and [Søren] Krarup of the Danish People's Party... agree for a change: no snipping off bits of the Danish language just because the language of the internet is English! ... Parents might stop giving their babies names with any of these three characters so that they can get jobs with international corporations when they grow up!... By the way: The last letter in the Danish alphabet [å] was stolen from Swedish and was introduced in Denmark only in 1948 in the course of a language reform. If we could do without it before then, we might be able to in future as well."

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