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From: taylor@glasgow.glasgow.UUCP (Jem Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Re: ISO Latin 1 alphabet
Message-ID: <360@glasgow.glasgow.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 09:44:38 EST
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In article <133@dg_rtp.UUCP> goudreau@dg_rtp.UUCP (Bob Goudreau) writes:
>>Since when has French used umlaute?
>For quite a long time.  For example, "Citro\:en", "Saint-Sa\:ens", "No\:el",
>where "\:e" stands for umlaut-e.

The point is that 'umlaut' is the german for a mark placed on a vowel to
indicate a vowel+letter-e combination - as in Go:ring/Goering.

In French the symbol 'trema' (visually identical to umlaut) is used on the
letters i and e to indicate that the sound is broken in two (Noe:l) rather
than flowing ( Noel, pronounced as per knoll ).

"Vive l'Alsace libre!"

-Jem