Francis,

On 19-10-2005 23:17, you [FD] wrote in
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TB>> What's an umlaut?

FD> In french they're called "tréma(s)".
FD> Noël (Christmas), poële (stove).

That is something different.

Umlauts denote a different vowel sound whereas the same diacritic mark
(the diaeresis in English) (¨) in other languages, e.g. French, denotes
that vowels should be pronounced separately.

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