From: John Hudson (john@tiro.ca)
Date: Mon Jan 09 2006 - 19:54:38 CST
Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin wrote:
> Umlaut as "E" above in this 1978 mediaeval-themed Austrian postage stamp:
> < http://www.apilch.2in.de/briefmark17.htm >.
This is just a glyph variant of U+00D6 and would decompose to U+004F U+0308. There is a
long established tradition of writing the German umlaut as a small E in display lettering
and typography, since before use of the teo dots the umlauted vowel was indicated by
addition of an e, either after or above. Sometimes the E is above the letter as in this
Austrian stamp example, other times it may be within the letter.
John Hudson
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