In
<143900959.130026.1321983016994.javamail.r...@sz0042a.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net>,
on 11/22/2011
   at 05:30 PM, Linda Mooney <linda.lst...@comcast.net> said:

>Even in my English class it was called an umlaut,

The accent in, e.g., Jütte, is an umlaut. The diacritical mark in,
e.g., naïve, is a diaresis[2].

>Somebody's (maybe everybody's) email editor is probably playing
>tricks

Correct transmission of anything but ASCII require three header
fields, e.g.,

 Mime-Version: 1.0
 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15
 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

[1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umlaut>; it's a special case of
    a diaresis

[2] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic)>
 
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     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
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