Re: Difference between umlaut and dieresis?

On May 13, 2:06 pm, "James Silverton" <not.jim.silver...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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"Ae" etc. to indicate an umlaut may well be a usual German
spelling but nobody told me when I was learning the language and
the first time I recall seeing it was when I received a reply
from a Swiss travel agent in the 80s (hence, my name for it!)  I
remember at the time assuming it was because they were using an
IBM typewriter. I must look carefully at a German popular
magazine like Bunte when next I am in the local library.

As far as I know, the use of e to make an Umlaut is entirely kosher in
Western Switzerland for writing German (you can even say it is
preferred with capitals), while in Germany itself it is more like a
last resort -when you don't have the right keyboard, when you have to
write in ASCII, etc. Will be hard to find it in Bunte.
.

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