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

Sander html5 at zoid.nl
Mon Jun 25 11:48:22 PDT 2007


Křištof Želechovski schreef:
> Could I have an example of &otrema; please?  Something along the lines of
> zoölogy, but actually required?  Not that I doubt your knowledge of Dutch
> but I would like to have it as a demonstration.
> Chris
>   
coördinaten


BTW: neither of the quotes below are mine ;-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: whatwg-bounces at lists.whatwg.org
> [mailto:whatwg-bounces at lists.whatwg.org] On Behalf Of Oistein E. Andersen
> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 11:28 PM
> To: whatwg at whatwg.org
> Subject: Re: [whatwg] Entity parsing [trema/diaresis vs umlaut]
>
> Sander wrote:
>
>   
>> Only the vowel U can have either
>>     
>
> This is not quite right. All Latin vowels (a, e, i, o, u, y) can take the
> trema/diaresis
> (ä, ë, i, ö, ü in Dutch; ë, i, ü*, y** in French), and a, o, u can all be
> umlauted (ä, ö, ü
> in German).
>
>
>
>
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