Re: xsampa for vowels and diphthongs

Ktabbe M. Astrand:

> >My comment here is not on shmampa, but on spelling. When you *write* words
> >by hand, |ii| and |ü|/|u"| will be definitely confused. It's almost a no-no
> >in alphabet designing to have them both at one time, AFAIK.
> >
>
> I believe Estonian has both, and I would guess that the i dots are written
> separately in handwriting, but the umlaut becomes a macron (if "macron" is
> how we call a straight line above a vowel).
I have no info about Estonian at hand now, but from what I remember you may be
right. At least I saw Finnish handwriting using macrons instead of dieresis
("umlaut"). That's why I wrote "almost".

Yitzik