On 18 February 2012 06:40, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <[email protected]> wrote: >> As Sue said, oe is an accepted way of saying ö if you can't easily get the >> umlaut. Using o is just wrong (it would be pronounced completely >> differently). > > I would beg to disagree. And remind people that in the computer world > a keyboard that doesn't have the umlaut is a very strange keyboard > indeed. > > Our co-belligerents of yore, the Germans may silently grit their > teeth, because in their case the offence is not perpetrated that > often. But as a Finn I can tell you that "accept" is not even near the > mark.The problem is orders of magnitude worse, because there are > surnames that have no vowels but the letters ä and ö in them. The NBA > basketball player "Moettoelae" (mispelled for effect) for instance.
Sorry, I should have been more precise. I was referring only to German. As I understand it, Finnish doesn't really have umlauts. It uses the same symbol (just as English does), but for a different purpose. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
