Hi Shmuel,
Thanks, I appreciate the info and the links. Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 2:06:53 PM Subject: Re: Terminology 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)> -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
