[Python-Dev] PEP 393 Summer of Code Project

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> But in a word like "coëxistentie" (coexistence) the o
> and e do not form the oe-sound, and to emphasize this to Dutch readers
> (who believe their spelling is very logical :-), the official spelling
> puts the umlaut on the e.

Sometimes this is done in English too -- occasionally
you see words like "cooperation" spelled with a diaresis
over the second "o". But these days it's more common to
use a hyphen, or not bother at all. Everyone knows how
it's pronounced.

-- 
Greg