Re: How to convert 'ö' to 'oe' or 'o' (or other similar things) in a string?
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Sun Sep 18 03:51:40 EDT 2016
On 9/18/2016 2:45 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> It doesn't matter whether you call them "accent" like most people do, or
> "diacritics" as linguists do.
I am a native born American and I have never before heard or seen
non-accent diacritic marks called 'accents'. Accents indicate stress.
Other diacritics indicate other pronunciation changes. It is
counterproductive to confuse the two groups. Spanish, for instance, has
vowel accents that change which syllable gets stressed. A tilda is not
an accent; rather, it softens the pronunciation of 'n' to 'ny', as in
'canyon'.
Terry Jan Reedy
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