Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 02:44:54 +0100 (CET) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Umlauts Message-ID: <m10Pcj0-000WyPC@mips.rhein-neckar.de> In-Reply-To: <19990323225441.54729@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <19990323081900.52443@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
[ German umlauted vowel -> vowel + 'e' substitution ]
> I don't think other languages use anything like this,
It depends on the language. The French just leave off their various
diacritical marks if unavailable.
> so in case you can't spell Søren Schmidt correctly, it's IMHO best to
> call him Soren instead.
I can't speak for Søren, but unless he tells me differently, I will
consider "Soeren" to be more polite.
Check out some dk.* groups with Deja News. It takes about a minute to
find several people who use "oe" in their e-mail address or header
version of their name but 'ø' in their signature. That 'æ' is expanded
to "ae" shouldn't come as a surprise, and 'å' becomes "aa".
(Let's move this to -chat.)
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de
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