tech: formats

[Mark_Mandel at DRAGONSYS.COM]

Bruce K. Dykes <bkd at GRAPHNET.COM> writes:
[quoting Andrea]

>>>>>
>u"ber.  For German, folks usually use a following 'e' in place of an umlaut,
>e.g. ueber.

Those foresighted Germans!
<<<<<

AAMOF, the e-form is older. Then they started writing the "e" over the vowel,
small, with two little half-loops, I think. It eventually got reduced to two
dots.

-- Mark

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