[whatwg] Entity parsing [trema/diæresis vs umlaut]

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Mon Jun 25 14:44:30 PDT 2007


On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Øistein E. Andersen wrote:
>
> On 25 Jun 2007, at 11:44AM, Křištof Želechovski wrote:
> 
> > A stressed schwa is present in Polish maritime dialect as well 
> > (Kaszëbszczi) and Slovaks write "mäso" for "miaso" (meat), but that 
> > is not the point.  All such uses can be covered under the hood of the 
> > dieresis;
> 
> I really do not understand why these uses of the double-dot diacritic 
> should be considered as instances of the diæresis (see below).

This really is out of scope of this working group, it's more a Unicode 
Consortium issue.

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