From: "Radovan Garabik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Just a wild guess: isn't the acute accent used to indicate that > Oe does not form a digraph �, but is to be pronounced separately?
This "acute" really looks like a printing error to me, not like a real acute. But if you were to pronounce o-e distnictly (which I don't think is the case here), you'd use the e-tr�ma sign: O�chtringen. There is a German comedian whose last name is written "Ho�cker" since it is pronounced "ho-eck-er" rather than "h�ck-er". Adam

