Spencer Graves <spencer.graves <at> pdf.com> writes: > (This may not be relevant, but Google just gave me 788,000 hits for > "moebius" and 750,000 for "mobius".) Perhaps one of our German > contributors could tell us which they prefer.
As you asked for it: The former is correct, and the second is a misspelling. So there is no choice but simply "right" and "wrong". The only alternative to the full '8-bit' spelling with an Umlaut is the 'transcribed 7-bit' form of replacing the 'two dots over the vowel' with an 'appended e after the vowel'. As in Maechler, or in the From: field above. The problem is that most of the world simply drops the dots: E.g. the comparison of 'Wolfgang Hardle' and 'Wolfgang Haerdle' at scholar.google.com shows that the correct form is (barely) leading with a narrow 227 to 220. My PhD dissertation is archived in the French Bibliotheque Nationale under Eddelbuttel as I opted for the correct 8-bit form (using LaTeX) which got of course transcribed into the incorrect Eddelbuttel. Some lessons are learned the hard way ... Hope this helps, Dirk ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
