Iceland Raises Volcano Aviation Alert Again

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday August 31, 2014 @01:38AM from the every-ash-cloud-has-a-silver-lining dept.

An anonymous reader writes Iceland's authorities have raised an aviation warning for a region close to the Bardarbunga volcano after a small fissure eruption in the area. The eruption began around 0600 GMT prompting the Icelandic Met Office to raise the aviation warning code to red for the Bardarbunga/Holuhraun area, the Department of Civil Protection and Emergency Management said in a statement. The country's meteorological agency described the eruption as a "very calm lava eruption and can hardly be seen on seismometers."

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Re:Bah, character-set ignorance. by ibwolf · 2014-08-31 08:38 · Score: 3, Interesting

This is wrong on all counts. It is very much traditional for us Icelanders (yes I'm from Iceland) to transliterate eth (ð) as d and accented characters like á without the accent.
Th is only used to transliterate the thorn (which Slashdot refuses to render).
What is annoying is when the eth is transliterated as o. I have one in my last name and I've had trouble with checking in to flights booked via Expedia due to this nonsense.