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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: P-Day tomorrow!
To: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber)
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 23:30:43 +0000 (GMT)
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> > Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> writes:
> > > ...And if it's every rolled in, I insist that it be called...
> > > 
> > > 	"non-spacing Umlaat day"
> > 
> > Why "Umlaut"? Why does everybody have to call that ¨ an umlaut?
> 
> The U+0300 code point I assume Terry was referring to is indeed
> called a "COMBINING DIAERESIS".   Terry is getting sloppy with
> his email.  :)

Well, my point is somewhat blunted by my having spelled "umlaut"
incorrectly, but...  shouldn't the "AE" in "DIAERESIS" be a
dipthong instead of two seperate letters?

Anyway, I'm partial to it because U+0300 matches the FreeBSD 3.0
release version number.  8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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