Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 23:30:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Cc: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, tlambert@primenet.com, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, mark@grondar.za, current@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: P-Day tomorrow! Message-ID: <199809082330.QAA19776@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809081626440.1767-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> from "John Fieber" at Sep 8, 98 04:31:36 pm
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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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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