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From: Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
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Subject: Re: char to decimal
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On 05/06/2011 09:47 AM, Michael Wojcik wrote:
> Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
>> Lew<noone@lewscanon.com>  wrote:
>>> On 05/06/2011 05:45 AM, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:
>>>> English alphabet only
>>> The English alphabet includes 'æ', 'ë', 'ö', 'œ' and other
>>> such symbols not included in ASCII.
>>
>> I wasn't aware of any particular "English alphabet". There's
>> however the Latin alphabet, and a subset of it used in
>> English language.  Now, I'm curious about an English sentence
>> using your particular samples of characters within words.
>
> The ligatures and o-umlaut are relatively common in English
> typography, particularly in books published before, say, 1950. Joshua
> Cranmer already mentioned "coöperation" which (along with its lemmas)
> is a prominent case of the latter.
>
> I don't recall offhand seeing e-umlaut used in English sentences for
> words that are not loan-words from other languages (though the
> distinction between a loan-word and a "native" one in English is
> rather vague anyway). But there may well be cases I'm not thinking of.

The preëminence of the e-umlaut has faded.

-- 
Lew
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