At 08:32 31.10.2002 -0800, Doug Ewell wrote:
Both forms are permissible and used, even though Goethe is today by far the more frequent version -- remember that there was no standardized German orthography before the late 19th century and that the idea that a person's name has exactly one spelling is a fairly young idea in Europe.Adam Twardoch <list dot adam at twardoch dot com> wrote:>> Should an English language font render ö as oe, so that Göthe >> appears automatically in the more normal English form Goethe? > > If you refer to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, his name is *not* spelled > with an "ö" anyway. Somebody thinks so: http://www.transkription.de/gb_seiten/beispiele/goethe.htm
Taking such facts into account for matching purposes is a good idea, but
changing the version for rendering is not.
Best regards,
Marc
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