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to: Holger Granholm
from: mark lewis
date: 2019-02-22 11:02:00
subject: Character codes

 On 2019 Feb 21 17:05:00, you wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 MK>> Near as I can figure dec 148 in PC8 would be the "LATIN SMALL LETTER
 MK>> O WITH DIAERESIS" which in latin1 is dec 246 or the รถ character in
 MK>> utf8.

 HG> The expression 'diaeresis' doesn't exist in my vocabulary or dictionary.
 HG> However, if diaeresis is the same as the 'divide' sign on the numeric
 HG> keyboard I agree. That comes out as the Umlaut 'o' in when translated
 HG> from Latin 1.

https://www.google.com/search?q="O+WITH+DIAERESIS"

looking at the above, one can see that "diaeresis" is "two dots on top"...

the O or o with the forward slash like the divided-by symbol is its own 
separate vowel character/letter in Scandianiavian...

diaeresis and umlaut look the same (two dots on top) but they signify different 
pronounciations...

  "The diaeresis and the umlaut are diacritics marking two distinct
   phonological phenomena. The diaeresis represents the phenomenon
   also known as diaeresis or hiatus in which a vowel letter is
   pronounced separately from an adjacent vowel and not as part of a
   digraph or diphthong. The umlaut (/'?mla?t/), in contrast, indicates
   a sound shift. These two diacritics originated separately; the
   diaeresis is considerably older."

in unicode, both are coded the same so something like HTML ä is both 
a-umlaut and a-diaeresis in the same way that the hyphen and minus are 
represented by the same character glyph...

the above gleaned in about 10 minutes research on the web ;)

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