From: "Stefan Persson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In old Swedish the diÃresis above y was displayed as two dots in > Fraktur. "Ã" was at that point used in the same way as "ij", which was > often used for a long "i". The spelling was free, and you could decide > yourself if you wanted to write "ij" or "Ã" in a particular word. The > diÃresis above any letter in Antiqua was generally written as two dots. > > In old Swedish loan words and many names were written in Antiqua, while > the rest was written in Fraktur. Thus one should not expect characters > not used in normal Swedish words in Fraktur. > > Thus, U+0364 was equivalent to U+0308 when U+0308 was representing an > umlaut, but not when U+0308 was representing a diÃresis because U+0308 > had two contextually different display forms.
Interesting, I am still wondering if there is a justification for the rounded "e"-shaped form for U+0364 COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER E, if every occurence I can find always displays a diaeresis or a form near from it (such as in Gothik, Fraktur, SÃtterlin...) with two tiny strokes or dots. I note that some handwritten forms of a base letter "e" sometimes look like a yiddish double vav, with the second vav with a shorter leg, above the baseline, sometimes joined with the first one in a ligature. This looks like an intermediary form between the modern rounded "e" and the SÃtterlin glyph.
