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  WWDC: Apple Reveals Its Path
Subject:   Exposé
Date:   2003-07-09 05:10:00
From:   anonymous2
Response to: Exposé

Here in Germany we have no accents, but we have umlauts (ÄÖÜäöü) and the sz (ß)
You cannot replace ä with a, for example, because the two vowels sound absolutely different, but you can always substitute ae for ä, oe for ö etc. and ss for ß.


There are some people here that want to ditch the umlauts, but I don't understand why we should no longer use the umlauts which have been around for hundreds of years, just because some old computers have no support for 8bit or Unicode encoding.