Re: TERMS: going dotty, twice over (was: TERMS: Umlaut-Ablaut)

Raymond Brown wrote:

> Strictly speaking the two dots in Spanish mark di(a)eresis [we Brits ke=
ep
> the 'a', the Americans omit it],
We Unicode geeks, even if American, keep it!  For example, the name of "=E4=
"
is LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS.

In addition to the =C4 =E4 =CB =EB =CF =EF =D6 =F6 =DC =FC =FF present in
Latin-1, Unicode also has capital Y (which got squeezed out of Latin-1),
H, T (lower case only), W, and X with diaeresis, U with diaeresis below
the letter, and some vowels with both diaeresis and another accent, thus:

        A WITH DIAERESIS AND MACRON
        I WITH DIAERESIS AND ACUTE
        O WITH TILDE AND DIAERESIS
        O WITH DIAERESIS AND MACRON
        U WITH DIAERESIS AND MACRON
        U WITH DIAERESIS AND ACUTE
        U WITH DIAERESIS AND CARON (caron =3D hacek)
        U WITH DIAERESIS AND GRAVE

Also lots of Cyrillic letters with diaeresis, Greek letters with dialytik=
a,
and APL symbols with diaeresis.  Of course, you can use COMBINING DIAERES=
IS
and COMBINING DIAERESIS BELOW to make up your own letters with two dots.

> The Bront=EB sisters put the diaeresis on the final -e of their surname=
 to
> show that it was pronounced and not silent as final -e usually is in
> English.
Actually, I think it was their father, who thought his original
surname of "Brunty" lacked coolness.

--=20

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 Schau
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