From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-104738-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1NGJqe-0001Ay-MY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:08:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD02CE0924; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 22:07:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f217.google.com (mail-fx0-f217.google.com [209.85.220.217]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9E1DE06EC for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 22:07:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm9 with SMTP id 9so1866320fxm.10 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:07:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=duHdty689GainA+Rc2ZgheCPaZRY8NBmi98WuqTov8M=; b=vhnBpheyPiug33oQzbsV+1B7yswbdmxk+oG6e92wePHKunOZ3y9+k4Gg8ppDs7XIis jHrUsG0tFRuxA/K+svtpbY13MuVU/iEaXpQq2RWSLxuRKh5PCqzIfr3CgLS8KCEV5E0S uHe0tPXyKLbpt5flXV3Aas/QMb7VMPjeX/VtM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=jSCjArGwzIdwctMI0a7KQTb92eswLqkv/tcF+6b0G6FiZ9Z+NGTdIOFNtJrjS4pfZJ M2Umwdz9j5Z4YVv/ripN19jCU1r9B9p7+FndM6muHlUaTdNiMQFFONh86Lw4aBWSXy8T jvlFCOvEQkHyj3fgwNzHQEVtDzN8xrP+K/nNw= Received: by 10.216.85.14 with SMTP id t14mr637987wee.222.1259878059554; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:07:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x6sm5406523gvf.22.2009.12.03.14.07.38 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:07:38 -0800 (PST) From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 23:07:33 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.31.6r4; KDE/4.3.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <20091203192003.GA1702@crowfix.com> <20091203205008.5584fa37@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20091203205008.5584fa37@gmx.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200912032307.33684.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 1f1135ca-c1d3-4ccd-ad78-21597b1b2cea X-Archives-Hash: 4cf6e0c9d5995f7ed46631fe4628ee65 On Donnerstag 03 Dezember 2009, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > Hi! >=20 > On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:20:03 -0800 >=20 > felix@crowfix.com wrote: > > In Germany is a district "Busingen", with an umlauted 'u'. Is it > > reasonable to consider it the same word whether with or without the > > unlauted u? >=20 > No. For many words it would be ok, but not for all. For example, > "drucken" means "to print", "dr=FCcken" (with an umlaut) means "to > press". In German you can exchange an umlaut with the combination "base > letter + e", i.e. =FC --> ue, =F6 --> oe, and =DF --> ss. There are words > with the combination "oe" that is in that particular case does not mean > "=F6". So it's not straight forward, especially with names. Those may > have a rather odd spelling for historical reasons. and it is hilarious to see american media fuck that up almost every time ..= =2E=20 ;)