Post #2766620

2023-08-05 09:14 UTC

@slomo@toot.cat there are many reasons to not want them to write about one, but… I thought the ö was equivalent to oe. Is it not? (I only kind of know how these are pronounced, but I actually thought they were equivalent.)

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@slomo@toot.cat 2023-08-05 10:09

@lkanies@hachyderm.io They are. The correct way to transliterate ö to plain Latin characters is via oe, but outside Germany almost nobody knows that and assumes the dots can simply be omitted instead 🙂 Plain o is also accepted (e.g. in documents) but not "correct". Fun fact, here in Greece I'm with five different names in the systems because everything has it's own silly rules and technical restrictions: Dröge, Droege, Droge, Ντρέγκε (correct transliteration to Greek) and Ntregke (Greek transliterated to Latin characters again) 🙃

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@chucker@norden.social 2023-08-07 07:29

@lkanies@hachyderm.io @slomo@toot.cat yep. In fact, umlauts used to be written as little superscript ‘e’s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umlaut_(diacritic)#/media/File%3AUmlaut_forms.png

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