Re: [libreoffice-users] two dots above the i in presentation.

2012/3/13 Séamas Ó Brógáin <sob@iol.ie>:
> Tom wrote:
>
> > I thought the umlaut was a specific type of such a mark and that there
> > were quite a few different markings, and in different languages, that
> > could change the way a letter sounds?
>
> Diacritical marks are used for lots of different purposes in different
> languages though the marks themselves have often been copied from other
> languages. The diaeresis was first used for Greek, to show that a vowel
> was pronounced separately and not part of a diphthong; this was later
> applied to French for the same purpose (hence “naïve”), but the same
> mark was later applied to German for umlaut, which was originally shown
> by means of a small 〈e〉 over the letter. Just easier to write, I
> suppose.

Well, the e was, as far as I know, replaced by ¨ because of the
printing quality long ago. The e is always lower case and smaller then
the ”main” letter, and if the paper quality is not fine enough, and
the font is small, all there's left of the e are two dots.


Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ

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