Guido van Rossum wrote:
But in a word like "coëxistentie" (coexistence) the o and e do not form the oe-sound, and to emphasize this to Dutch readers (who believe their spelling is very logical :-), the official spelling puts the umlaut on the e.
Sometimes this is done in English too -- occasionally you see words like "cooperation" spelled with a diaresis over the second "o". But these days it's more common to use a hyphen, or not bother at all. Everyone knows how it's pronounced. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
