Re: Umlauts (was Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad)

Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> > Nevertheless, the standards community has adopted "diaeresis" as the general
> > name, so we are stuck with it.  They also call the hacek "caron", and no one
> > knows why.
>
> What's the etymology of "caron", BTW?
That's just what I meant by "no one knows why"; the etymology is unknown,
and the term seems to exist only in ISO character standards.

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