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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: naive (...question about uncial...)
Summary: dieresis, not umlaut
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.180811.1957@ico.isc.com>
Date: 24 Apr 91 18:08:11 GMT
References: <1991Apr24.152455.22367@engage.enet.dec.com>
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I'd answered in mail, but since this has come up in a couple of postings...

davis@3d.enet.dec.com (Peter Davis) writes:
> The two dots over a letter are called an umlaut.

Strictly, the mark is called a dieresis.  You can call it an umlaut and
the intent will be understood, but umlaut tends to imply specific German
usage, and German doesn't use umlaut over "i"--it's only on the strong
vowels--"a", "o", "u".  The "i-dieresis" is French usage.
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