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From: goudreau@dg_rtp.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Re: ISO Latin 1 alphabet
Message-ID: <163@dg_rtp.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 13:41:13 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 17 13:41:13 1986
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In article <360@glasgow.glasgow.UUCP> taylor@glasgow.UUCP (Jem Taylor) 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

Actually, my point is that *any* information system's implementation of a French
character set *should* include a way of generating this character.  Whether
you want to call it "e avec trema", "umlaut - e" or even "yo" (as in Russian)
makes no difference.  The important issue is its distinction from plain "e"
or even from similar (but not identical) looking accents like the Hungarian
dieresis.

Bob Goudreau