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Ok, but then a) we'd need to refine the issue to "enhance request to handle every non-ASCII character/digram that could occur in other Boggle languages":

- Spanish: ñ

- Czech: no extra characters (e.g. 'E' can be used in words as E, É and Ì)

- Danish/Norwegian: do Boggle dice use æ,å,ø ? I searched but couldn't find out.

- Swedish: do Boggle dice use å,ä,ö ?

- Turkish: do Boggle dice use ç,ı,ğ,ş,ö,ü ?

- Bosnian: see https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/a/51289/2358

- Filipino: ñ . And separately in some wordgames (e.g. Scrabble knockoffs), I see 'ng' treated as a single digraph. Apparently it's officially a separate digraph, so the Tagalog alphabet ('abakada') has 28 letters.

And b) if we have rare characters on a few dice (esp. the unofficial Bosnian one proposed), that imposes restrictions on your assumption that any cell can be any letter. So you'd have to postprocess to cull a few words that couldn't legally be made with that dice-set.



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