Comments on: Volkerkerker

By: Deadbeat Dad

Deadbeat Dad — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:52:55 +0000

For future reference, Timmy: Guide to HTML encoding of foreign language characters.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:12:38 +0000

Tim,

Here’s another one for you.

Volkerwanderung.

By: Alan Douglas

Alan Douglas — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:20:26 +0000

Umlaut does NOT have an umlaut, at least in the singular.

Nor did that rocj bank of a few years back.

Alan Douglas

By: AlexM

AlexM — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:21:03 +0000

Ha! These federasts don’t like it up ‘em.

btw

Alt+0246 = ö
Alt+0252 = ü
Alt + 0214 = Ö

etc. Standard basic latin code pages.

By: Natalie Solent

Natalie Solent — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:14:40 +0000

rrr

By: Natalie Solent

Natalie Solent — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:14:08 +0000

It wöked!

By: Natalie Solent

Natalie Solent — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:13:26 +0000

Type an ampersand followed by “o” followed by “uml” followed by a semi-colon.
Let’s try that … here’s preview? You used to have preview … oh, never mind.
ö!

By: Eva

Eva — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:42:37 +0000

No umlaut in umlaut. Pronounced ‘oomlaut’. Orthographic convention is to use ‘e’ behind the letter that would ordinarily have an umlaut, so ‘Voelkerkerker’.

By: AntiCitizenOne

AntiCitizenOne — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:29:08 +0000

HTML encode it as ¨aut; surely?

By: So Much For Subtlety

So Much For Subtlety — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:15:54 +0000

Didn’t Herzen call the Tsarist Empire that first?

Worse echoes there because we know how that turned out.

Tim adds: Herzen, yes, but not in German. There were audible in drawings of breath and boos when Nigel used the Viennese German phrase….