[whatwg] several messages

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Kristof Zelechovski wrote:
>
> If there is a character set that sports both, it must be used to put 
> down some human language.  My point there is no language that could make 
> use of this distinction by having both ü and &utrema;.  There are 
> languages that use ü and theoretically there could be ones that use 
> &utrema;, although I do not know of any valid case (I consider the 
> French case invalid).

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Kristof Zelechovski 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 only want the
> true umlaut to be distinct, not as a code point but as an entity name.

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Køi¹tof ®elechovski wrote:
>
> 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

This is all academic. HTML is based on Unicode, Unicode doesn't 
distinguish these characters. Also, we can't change the entity name, we 
would just be adding a redundant character that doesn't work in older UAs.

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