On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 05:49:58PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: > On 20 Feb 2003 at 16:16, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > > In the case where the vowel is alone and having its sound changed, > > the absence of an umlaut-enabled system an 'e' is appended to the > > vowel in question. (Munchen, Muenchen) > > Your statement is right about German, though. (And "ß" gets replaced by > "ss" or *sometimes* by "sz".)
And the Swiss just don't bother with "ß" at all - it's always "ss". When perl6-language was arguing over unicode operators I had considered mentioning that numerous non-English speaking countries get by with mapping their characters to a-z where necessary, but I thought better of it and so I'm mentioning it here instead, where the discussion is far more rational. -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net
