Re: French spelling scheme

Weiben Wange wrote:
>Actually, just last week I saw a Hannoverian legal text published in the
>1820's, printed in Fraktur with tiny superscript e's over umlauted vowels.
>I wish I could send a picture.  One of the cool, if obscure, things you can
>find at the New York Public Library.  In case you didn't know, ae, ue, oe
>are still used as altertnate spellings for the corresponding umlaut vowels.
>  You sometimes see them in e-mails or on the web, where it's can be hard
>to type umlauts (for those of us with non-German keyboards at least ;).
And of course, the digraphs in -e are very common in people's names. Joseph
Goebbels is a well-known example.

                                                Andreas
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