&gt; But what came first?<p>Ñ existed long before USA, ASCII and UTF.<p>So nobody should think that today &quot;Ñ&quot; <i>is</i> a shorthand.<p>-----------<p>(out of topic, just for moderators: hello mods, dang, why in the world is the user &quot;uola&quot; &quot;hellbanned&quot;? just because he posted too many responses? maybe he should have been informed to slow down, I know you have that feature. Is the reason is not to let know the &quot;bots&quot; or malicious users when the point of &quot;too much&quot; starts? Please ignore my question if it&#x27;s inconvenient to answer, I just hope uola gets the chance to comment from some point in time later as I haven&#x27;t seen anything bad in the dead comments.)