From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 10 12:26:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA04785 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 12:26:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tim.xenologics.com (tim.xenologics.com [194.77.5.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA04699 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 12:26:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from seggers@semyam.dinoco.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tim.xenologics.com (8.8.5/8.8.8) with UUCP id VAA21371 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 21:21:33 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from semyam.dinoco.de (semyam.dinoco.de [127.0.0.1]) by semyam.dinoco.de (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA21906; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 21:15:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from seggers@semyam.dinoco.de) Message-Id: <199809101915.VAA21906@semyam.dinoco.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: P-Day tomorrow! In-reply-to: Your message of "08 Sep 1998 22:23:49 +0200." Cc: seggers@semyam.dinoco.de Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 21:15:17 +0200 From: Stefan Eggers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > does the HTML entity for ï have to be ï? Why use a German word > when there's a perfectly good English word for the bloody double-dot: > DIARESIS for chrissake! They are different according to the Webster I have - as I expected. A dieresis is used to indicate the adjacent vowels belong to different syllabels while the umlaut changes the pronounceation of the vowel. Now - of course - the questions is what the more appropriate name is when you have to describe the dots. Have fun. ;-) Stefan. -- Stefan Eggers Lu4 yao2 zhi1 ma3 li4, Max-Slevogt-Str. 1 ri4 jiu3 jian4 ren2 xin1. 51109 Koeln Federal Republic of Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message