From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Mar 23 17:48:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46FB214E16; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 17:48:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from mips.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id CAA05343; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 02:48:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: by mips.rhein-neckar.de id m10Pcj0-000WyPC (Debian Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #2); Wed, 24 Mar 1999 02:44:54 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 02:44:54 +0100 (CET) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Reply-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Umlauts In-Reply-To: <19990323225441.54729@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <19990323081900.52443@uriah.heep.sax.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org J Wunsch wrote: [ German umlauted vowel -> vowel + 'e' substitution ] > I don't think other languages use anything like this, It depends on the language. The French just leave off their various diacritical marks if unavailable. > so in case you can't spell Søren Schmidt correctly, it's IMHO best to > call him Soren instead. I can't speak for Søren, but unless he tells me differently, I will consider "Soeren" to be more polite. Check out some dk.* groups with Deja News. It takes about a minute to find several people who use "oe" in their e-mail address or header version of their name but 'ø' in their signature. That 'æ' is expanded to "ae" shouldn't come as a surprise, and 'å' becomes "aa". (Let's move this to -chat.) -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de >H Deutsche Transhumanismus-Mailingliste echo 'subscribe trans-de' | mail majordomo@lists.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message