On Feb 16, 2012 3:22 PM, "Theo10011" <de10...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Sue Gardner <sgard...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > While we're on the topic, here's a public service announcement. It's > > Bishakha Datta, not Bishaka Datta. The single most-frequently > > misspelled name on our lists, AFAICT. Also, Erik Moeller or Erik > > Möller with umlaut. Never Erik Moller with no umlaut :-) > > > Oh cmon we're not going to start using umlauts (exception - heavy metal > umlauts?). > > Erik has to settle with having his name misspelled, unless he considers > changing it. ;) > (think of all the time-saving from looking at the alt-key codes for us > non-German keyboard users)
As Sue said, oe is an accepted way of saying ö if you can't easily get the umlaut. Using o is just wrong (it would be pronounced completely differently). _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
