In a message on 02-22-19 mark lewis said to Holger Granholm:

Hi Mark,

 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.

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

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

Yes.

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

Only in danish and norwegian. In other european countries the
'O' with two dots on top is used.

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

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

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

OK and thanks for the explanation.


Have a nice day,

Holger


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