TECH: Formats

[Bruce K. Dykes]

-----Original Message-----
From: A. Vine <avine at ENG.SUN.COM>
To: ADS-L at UGA.CC.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
Date: Monday, May 10, 1999 19:24
Subject: TECH: Formats


>Even though I'm not Mark, I have a suggestion.  You can follow the letter
with
>the diacritic, e.g. Cine`ma or re'ussi or e^tre or franc,ais or man~ana or
>u"ber.  For German, folks usually use a following 'e' in place of an
umlaut,
>e.g. ueber.  The French emails I receive just omit the diacritics entirely.


Those foresighted Germans! In addition to the umlaut, there's another
oddball character, the ess-tset (sp?). It's the one that looks like a
capital 'B' with the bottom loop open. It's a shortcut for 'ss', and
allegedly there are rules which dictate when it can be used.

Bruce