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From: otto@whuxle.UUCP (George V.E. Otto)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Use of national characters in names
Message-ID: <374@whuxle.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 20-May-84 15:27:28 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 20 15:27:28 1984
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Organization: Bell Labs, Whippany
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The German solution to this problem is, I believe, to use the older
spellings for names with "funny" (i.e., national) characters in them.  Hence
umlauted "o" is spelled "oe" when typed on a typewriter without national
characters.  Using this scheme, the name of Hofstadter's book would be typed
"Goedel, Escher, Bach."  I think the same scheme should be used with other
national characters.  This can be done easily when there is a history
connecting letter combinations to national characters.  I don't know if this
is a possible with *all* national characters, however.

Even if so, there would have to be some sort of lexicon published on the net
to inform everyone of the conventions being followed.

					George Otto
					AT&T Bell Labs, Whippany
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