Re: Umlaut and Tréma, was: Variation selectors and vowel marks

From: Dominikus Scherkl \(MGW\) (DominikusScherkl@mgw-online.de)
Date: Thu Jul 15 2004 - 04:56:04 CDT

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    > > Secondly, the dieresis is used to indicate that two vowels are
    > > pronounced separately. I haven't seen a case where the vowels would
    > > already be accented.

    > There are such cases

    May be, but it doesn't matter - no german reader would ever take
    any combination of diacritics for an umlaut + something else,
    because in german such combinations simply doesn't exist.
    Only the tréma alone could be confused.

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    Dominikus Scherkl
    


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