How to convert 'ö' to 'oe' or 'o' (or other similar things) in a string?
Thorsten Kampe
thorsten at thorstenkampe.de
Sun Sep 18 15:34:58 EDT 2016
* Terry Reedy (Sun, 18 Sep 2016 03:51:40 -0400)
>
> 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'.
Had to be said. Nothing to add.
Thorsten
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