How to convert 'ö' to 'oe' or 'o' (or other similar things) in a string?
Marko Rauhamaa
marko at pacujo.net
Sun Sep 18 15:58:04 EDT 2016
Thorsten Kampe <thorsten at thorstenkampe.de>:
> * 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.
<URL: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accent>
5 a : a mark (as ´, `, ˆ) used in writing or printing to indicate a
specific sound value, stress, or pitch, to distinguish words
otherwise identically spelled, or to indicate that an ordinarily
mute vowel should be pronounced
b : an accented letter
Marko
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