That’s also part of the reason I’ve chosen it for a placeholder / variable name! The actual placing is not important as long as it’s where speakers of the Ä language expect to find it.

Or suppose there’s languages Ä₁ and Ä₂, where in Ä₁ the ‘ä’ is the umlauted ‘a’ and in Ä₂ it’s a distinct letter. The language list would be displayed as:

A Ä₁ B C Z Ä₂

The only problem / corner case would be such a language Ä₀ that would e.g. sort ‘ä’ before ‘a’. I would still put it after, since it’s where most other readers would expect to find it.

> "Ä"

OT, but this looks like an adorably blushing hen to me