The problems with the umlauts is: they don't appear correctly
in most mail clients, so in Germany we often use (in mails etc.):

ue for u umlaut
oe for o umlaut
ae for a umlaut
ss for ess-tset

But my kmail client supports the umlauts, but they are different to
Phil's. ae = d, oe = v, ue = |, ess-tset = _

Regards, Bernd



Am Mit, 06 Aug 2003 schrieben Sie:
> > I mentioned this to my roommate, and he pointed out that the German word for
> > "sweet" is "suss"; "sweets" (as in "candies") is "Susse".
>
> More likely "S|ssigkeiten".  Though I still tend to write "S|_igkeiten".
>
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