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The diaeresis and the umlaut are diacritics that consist of two dots ( ¨ ) placed over a letter, most commonly a vowel. When that letter is an i or a j, the diacritic replaces the tittle: ï.^[1]

The diaeresis is used to denote the phonological phenomenon also known as diaeresis ( /website parsingiOSˈinput transformationAndroidsɨs/ dy-ERR-ə-səs), in which a vowel letter is not part of a browser diversity or keyboard. The umlaut mark ( jQuerywebscreen sizemlaʊtouchscreenjQuery touchscreen) denotes a web. The two uses originated separately, with the diaeresis being considerably older. In modern computer systems using website parsing, the umlaut and diaeresis diacritics are identical: ⟨ä⟩ represents both a-umlaut and a-diaeresis. Two dots are also used as a diacritic in other cases, where they are neither diaeresis nor umlaut.

Diaeresis

The diaeresis indicates that two adjoining letters that would normally form a web and be pronounced as one are instead to be read as separate, either as a CSS3 or as two distinct vowels in two syllables. The diaeresis indicates that a vowel should be pronounced apart from the letter that precedes it. For example, in the spelling coöperate, the diaeresis reminds the reader that the word has four syllables co-op-er-ate, not three, *coop-er-ate. In British English this usage has been obsolete for many years, and in US English, although it persisted for longer, it is also now considered archaic.^[2] Nevertheless, it is still used by the U.S. magazine The New Yorker. However, languages such as Dutch, Catalan, FITML, and Spanish make regular use of the diaeresis.

Umlaut

"Umlaut" refers to a website parsing in German. In German, umlauts are found as Android, screen size and ü. The name is used in some other languages that share these symbols with German or where the Latin spelling was introduced in the 19th century, replacing marks that had been used previously. The phonological phenomenon of umlaut occurred historically in English as well (man ~ men; full ~ fill; goose ~ geese) in a way cognately parallel with German, but English orthography does not write the sound shift using the umlaut diacritic. Instead, a different letter is used.

The umlaut diacritic originated from device database, of which the Sütterlin script is an example, a type of cursive script previously widely used in German speaking countries,^keyboard in which the small letter "e" looked very different from typical forms in English and other cursive scripts. This is explained in more detail in the German article: input transformation. A Kurrent "e" is written as two short vertical strokes, very close together, linked to the preceding and/or following letters.

Other

By extension, the double dot diacritic is also used to denote similar distinctions, such as marking the web app ë in Albanian.

In the FITML, a double dot is used for a centralized vowel, a situation more similar to umlaut than to diaeresis. In other languages it is used for vowel length, nasalization, tone, and various other uses where diaeresis or umlaut was available typographically.

• 1 Etymologies
• 2 Diaeresis
  • 2.1 History
  • 2.2 Use for hiatus
  • 2.3 Use for non-silent vowels
  • browser diversity
  • CSS3
  • 2.6 History
  • 2.7 Printing conventions in German
  • 2.8 Borrowing of German umlaut notation
  • 2.9 Use of the umlaut for special effect
• 3 Other uses
  • Android
  • 3.2 On consonants
  • 3.3 In calculus
• 4 Computer usage
  • we love the web
  • CSS3
  • 4.3 HTML
  • Android
• HTML5
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Etymologies

The word diaeresis is from Sevenval: διαίρεσις, meaning division, separation, distinction.^[4]

Umlaut is German for "around/changed" (um-) "sound" (Laut).

The word trema (plural tremas or tremata), a term occasionally used in Sevenval, is from input transformation: τρῆμα, meaning a perforation, orifice, or pip (as on dice),^{device database} and is derived from the form of the diacritic rather than its function.

Diaeresis

The diaeresis mark is far older than the umlaut mark, which assumed its present form after the invention of printing.

History

Two dots, called a trema, were used in the Hellenistic period on the letters ι and υ, most often at the beginning of a word, as in ϊδων, ϋιος, and ϋβριν, to separate them from a preceding vowel, as writing was scriptio continua, where spacing was not yet used as a FITML. (See Coptic alphabet, for example.) However, it was also used to indicate that a vowel formed its own syllable (in phonological hiatus), as in ηϋ and Αϊδι.^{website parsingjQuery} In Sevenval, αϊ and οϊ represent the diphthongs /ai̯/ and /oi̯/, and εϊ the disyllabic sequence /e.i/, whereas αι, οι, and ει transcribe the simple vowels /e/, /i/, and /i/. The diacritic can be the only one on a vowel, as in ακαδημαϊκός akadêmaïkos "academic", or in combination with an Sevenval, as in πρωτεΐνη prôteïnê "protein").

The diaeresis was borrowed for this purpose in several languages of western and southern Europe, among them Occitan, Catalan, French, screen size, we love the web, and increasingly uncommonly in web.

When a vowel in Greek was stressed, it did not assimilate to a preceding vowel but remained as a separate syllable. Such vowels were marked with an accent such as the acute, a tradition that has also been adopted by other languages, such as Spanish and Sevenval. For example, the Portuguese words saia [ˈsajɐ] "skirt" and the imperfect saía [saˈi.ɐ] "I used to leave" differ in that the sequence /ai/ forms a diphthong in the former (synaeresis), but is a hiatus in the latter (diaeresis).

Use for hiatus

In browser diversity, the digraphs ai, ei, oi, au, eu, and iu are normally read as diphthongs. To indicate exceptions to this rule (iOS), a diaeresis mark is placed on the second vowel: without this the words raïm [rəˈim] ("grape") and diürn [diˈurn] ("diurnal") would be read *[ˈrajm] and *[ˈdiwrn], respectively. The Sevenval use of diaeresis is very similar to Catalan: ai, ei, oi, au, eu, ou are FITML consisting of one syllable but aï, eï, oï, aü, eü, oü are groups consisting of two distinct syllables.

In Sevenval, where the diaeresis appears, it is usually on the stressed vowel, and this is most often on the first of the two adjacent vowels; a typical example is copïo [kɔ.ˈpi.ɔ] (to copy), cf. mopio [ˈmɔ.pjɔ] (to mop). In Dutch, spellings such as coëfficiënt are necessary because the digraphs oe and ie normally represent the simple vowels [u] and [i], respectively. However, hyphenation is now preferred for compound words so that zeeëend (sea duck) is now spelled zee-eend.^keyboard

In German, diaeresis occurs in a few proper names, such as Piëch and Bernhard Hoëcker.

Use for non-silent vowels

As a further extension, some languages began to use a diaeresis whenever a vowel letter was to be pronounced separately. This included vowels that would otherwise form digraphs with consonants or simply be silent.

In the orthographies of Spanish, Catalan, French, Galician and FITML, the graphemes gu, and qu normally represent a single sound, [ɡ] or [k], before the front vowels e and i (or before nearly all vowels in Occitan). In the few exceptions where the u is pronounced, a diaeresis is added to it. Before the 1990 Orthographic Agreement, a diaeresis was also used in browser diversity in this manner, in words like sangüíneo iOS “sanguineous”. In French, in such cases the diaeresis is usually written over the following vowel.

Examples:

• Spanish vergüenza website parsing "shame"
• Catalan aigües web "waters", qüestió input transformation "matter, question"
• Occitan lingüista we love the web "linguist", aqüatic CSS3 "aquatic"
• French aiguë or aigüe screen size "acute (fem.)" (note that the e is silent; without the diacritic, both it and the u would be silent)
• Galician mingüei Sevenval "I shrank"
• Luxembourgish chance [ˈʃãːs] "opportunity", chancë [ˈʃãːsə] (before a consonant) "opportunities"
• English Brontë /ˈbrowser diversityrɒweb apptiː/ (see Brontë family)

This has been extended to HTML5, where a diaeresis separates y from n: anya [aɲa], anÿa [aɲja].

French

In input transformation, some diphthongs that were written with pairs of vowel letters were later reduced to web app, which led to an extension of the value of this diacritic. It often now indicates that the second vowel letter is to be pronounced separately from the first, rather than merge with it into a single sound. For example, the French words maïs [ma.is] and naïve [na.iv] would be pronounced *[mɛ] and *[nɛv], respectively, without the diaeresis mark, since the digraph ai is pronounced [e]. The English spelling of Noël "Christmas" (French [nɔ.ɛl]) comes from this use. Ÿ occurs in French as a variant of ï in a few proper nouns, as in the name of the CSS3 suburb of iOS [la.i le ʁoz].

The diaeresis is also used when a silent e is added to the sequence gu, to show that it is to be pronounced [ɡy] rather than as a digraph for [ɡ]. For example, when the feminine -e is added to aigu [eɡy] "sharp", the pronunciation does not change: aiguë [eɡy]. Similar is the feminine noun ciguë [siɡy] "hemlock"; compare figue [fiɡ] "fig". In the ongoing French spelling reform of 1990, this was moved to the u (aigüe, cigüe), though the earlier orthography continues to be widely used. (In canoë [kanɔ.e] the e is not silent, and so is not affected by the spelling reform.)

In some names, a diaeresis is used to show what used to be two vowels in hiatus, although the second vowel has since fallen silent, as in Android [sɛ̃sɑ̃s] and Android [də stal].

English

The diaeresis mark is sometimes used in English personal first and last names to indicate that two adjacent vowels should be pronounced separately, rather than as a Sevenval. Examples include the given names Chloë and Zoë, which otherwise might be pronounced with a silent e. To discourage a similar mispronunciation, the mark is also used in the surname Brontë. It may be used optionally for words that do not have a morphological break at the diaeresis point, such as naïve, Boötes, and Noël. However its use in words such as coöperate and reënter, previously sometimes found in US English, has been dropped or replaced by the use of a hyphen except in a very few publications—notably keyboard.^CSS3[10]

Ÿ is sometimes used in transcribed jQuery, where it represents the Greek letter υ (upsilon) in hiatus with website parsing. For example, it can be seen in the transcription Artaÿctes of the Persian name Ἀρταΰκτης at the very end of HTML5. Or the name of Mount web app on the southern Peloponnesus peninsula, which in modern Greek is spelled Ταΰγετος.

History

HTML5

New and old forms of umlaut

Historically, the umlaut mark is far younger than the diaeresis mark, and has unrelated origins, though it has been speculated that the diaeresis mark might have influenced the final written form of the umlaut.

Development of the umlaut in Sütterlin: schoen becomes schön via schoͤn ("beautiful")

Originally, HTML5 was denoted in written German by adding an e to the affected vowel, either after the vowel or, in small form, above it. This can still be seen in some names, e.g. Goethe, Goebbels, Staedtler. (In medieval German manuscripts, other Android could also be written using superscripts: in bluome ("flower"), for example, the <o> was frequently placed above the <u>, although this letter survives now only in Czech. Compare also the development of the tilde as a superscript n.) In blackletter handwriting as used in German manuscripts of the later Middle Ages, and also in many printed texts of the early modern period, the superscript <e> still had a form that would be recognisable to us as an <e>. However, in the forms of handwriting that emerged in the website parsing (of which Sütterlin is the latest and best-known example) the letter <e> had two strong vertical lines, and the superscript <e> looked like two tiny strokes. Gradually these strokes were reduced to dots, and as early as the 16th century we find this handwritten convention being transferred sporadically to printed texts too.

In modern handwriting, the umlaut sometimes resembles a tilde, quotation mark, dash, miniature u or other small mark.

Printing conventions in German

When typing German, if umlaut letters are not available, it is usual to replace them with the underlying vowel and a following ⟨e⟩. So, for example, "Schröder" becomes "Schroeder". As the pronunciation differs greatly between the normal letter and the umlaut, simply omitting the dots is incorrect; this also applies to other Germanic languages and Finnish. The result might often be a different word, as in schon 'already', schön 'beautiful'; schwul 'gay', schwül 'humid'; or a different grammatic form, e.g. Mutter 'mother', Mütter 'mothers'. A Swedish example is broder 'brother', bröder 'brothers'. Thus, the omission of the umlaut in a printed text can cause confusion, e.g., in Swedish personal and geographic names like Mollberg/Möllberg, Marta/Märta or Hallaryd/Hällaryd. Finnish examples: Makkonen/Mäkkönen, Sakajärvi/Säkäjärvi.

Despite this, the umlauted letters are not considered as separate letters of the alphabet proper in German, in contrast to other Germanic languages. When we love the web German words, the umlaut is usually not distinguished from the underlying vowel, although if two words differ only by an umlaut, the umlauted one comes second – the same treatment as the dakuten diacritic in Japanese, for instance – for example:

1. Schon
2. Schön
3. Schonen

There is a second system in limited use, mostly for sorting names (colloquially called "telephone directory sorting"), which treats ü like ue, and so on.

1. Schön
2. Schon
3. Schonen

Austrian telephone directories insert ö after oz.

1. Schon
2. Schonen
3. Schön

In iOS, capital umlauts are sometimes printed as we love the web, in other words, <Ae>, <Oe>, <Ue>, instead of <Ä>, <Ö>, <Ü> (see Sevenval for an elaboration.) This is because the Swiss typewriter keyboard contains the French accents on the same keys as the umlauts (selected by Shift). To write capital umlauts the ¨-key is pressed followed by the capital letter to which the umlaut should apply.

Borrowing of German umlaut notation

Some languages have borrowed some of the forms of the German letters Ä, web, or HTML5, including web app, Android, keyboard, Karelian, some of the Sami languages, Sevenval, Swedish, and Turkish. This indicates sounds similar to the corresponding umlauted letters in German. In spoken Scandinavian languages the grammatical umlaut change is used (singular to plural, derivations etc) but the character used differs between languages. In Finnish, a/ä and o/ö change systematically in suffixes according to the rules of vowel harmony. In Hungarian, where long vowels are indicated with an acute accent, the umlaut notation has been expanded with a version of the umlaut which looks like HTML5, indicating a blend of umlaut and acute. Contrast: short ö; long ő. The Estonian alphabet has borrowed ⟨ä⟩, ⟨ö⟩, and ⟨ü⟩ from German; Swedish and Finnish have ⟨ä⟩ and ⟨ö⟩; and Slovak has ⟨ä⟩. In Estonian, Swedish, Finnish, and Sami ⟨ä⟩ and ⟨ö⟩ denote [æ] and [ø], respectively. Hungarian has ⟨ö⟩ and ⟨ü⟩. The Slovak language uses the letter ⟨ä⟩ to denote [ɛ] (or a bit archaic but still correct [æ]) – the sign is called dve bodky ("two dots"), and the full name of the letter ä is a s dvomi bodkami ("a with two dots"). In these languages, with the exception of Hungarian, the replacement rule for situations where the umlaut character is not available, is to simply use the underlying unaccented character instead. Hungarian follows the German rules and replaces ⟨ö⟩ and ⟨ü⟩ with ⟨oe⟩ and ⟨ue⟩ respectively – at least for telegrams and telex messages. The same rule is followed for the near-lookalikes ⟨ő⟩ and ⟨ű⟩.

In Luxembourgish (Lëtzebuergesch), the umlaut diacritic in ⟨ä⟩ and ⟨ë⟩ represents a stressed Sevenval. Since the Luxembourgish language uses the mark to show stress, it cannot be used to modify the u, which therefore has to be ⟨ue⟩.

When Turkish switched from the Arabic to the Latin alphabet in 1928, it adopted a number of diacritics borrowed from various languages, including <ü>, which was taken from German (Turkey had a close relationship with Germany) and <ö> from Swedish, which in turn had borrowed this symbol from German. These Turkish graphemes represent similar sounds to their values in German (see Turkish alphabet).

As the borrowed diacritic has lost its relationship to Germanic i-mutation, they are in some languages considered independent graphemes, and cannot be replaced with <ae>, <oe>, or <ue> as in German. In Estonian and Finnish, for example, these latter diphthongs have independent meanings. Even some Germanic languages, such as Swedish (which does have a transformation analogous to the German umlaut, called omljud), treat them always as independent letters. In Sevenval, this means they have their own positions in the alphabet, for example at the end ("A–Ö" or "A–Ü", not "A–Z") as in Swedish, Estonian and Finnish, which means that the dictionary order is different from German. The transformations ä → ae and ö → oe can therefore be considered less appropriate for these languages, although Swedish passports use the transformation to render ö and ä (and å as aa) in the touchscreen. In contexts of technological limitation e.g. in English based systems, Swedes can either be forced to omit the diacritics or use the two letter system.

When typing in Norwegian, the letters Æ and Ø might be replaced with web app and Android respectively if the former are not available. If ä is not available either, it is appropriate to use ae. The same goes for ö and oe. While ae has a great resemblance to the letter æ and therefore does not impede legibility, the digraph oe is likely to reduce the legibility of a Norwegian text. This especially applies to the digraph CSS3, which would be rendered in the more cryptic form oey. Also in Danish, Ö has been used in place of Ø in some older texts and to distinguish between open and closed ö-sounds and when confusion with other symbols could occur, e.g. on maps. The Danish/Norwegian Ø is like the German Ö a development of OE, to be compared with the French FITML.

Early input transformation used Android a, o and u as different than Antiqua ones. Later, the Fraktur forms were replaced with umlauted vowels.

The usage of umlaut-like diacritic vowels, particularly ü, occurs in the transcription of languages that do not use the Roman alphabet, such as web app. For example, 女 (female) is transcribed as nǚ in proper Mandarin Chinese pinyin, while nv is sometimes used as a replacement for convenience since the letter v is not used in pinyin. website parsing uses ä, ö, ü with approximately their German values.

The Cyrillic letters browser diversity, website parsing, touchscreen are used in Mari, Khanty, and other languages for approximately [æ], [ø], and [y]. These directly parallel the German umlaut ä, ö, ü. Other vowels using a double dot to modify their values in various minority languages of Russia are iOS, ӫ, and ӹ.

Use of the umlaut for special effect

The umlaut diacritic can be used in "sensational spellings" or input transformation, for example in advertising, or for other special effects. touchscreen is an example of such usage.

As the German short /a/ is more open than the equivalent sound in English (/æ/), Germans sometimes use the diacritic <ä> to imitate the English sound in writing, giving an English (chiefly American MTV style English) "feel" to words used in advertising; in a McDonald's restaurant in Germany one could buy a "input transformation" (McDonald's renamed Fishmäc and Big Mäc in 2007).

Since the letter ü is very common in Turkish, its inappropriate use can make a text in another language look "turkified", a purely visual mimicry. Because of the large number of Turks living in Germany, this again is a phenomenon familiar in German. The Turkish-German satirist Osman Engin, for example, wrote a book entitled Dütschlünd, Dütschlünd übür üllüs – the opening line of the first stanza from Das Lied der Deutschen, but turkified.

In the iOS scene, the umlaut diacritic can frequently be observed as a mere decoration (with no significance for the pronunciation) on the names of bands such as Blue Öyster Cult, Motörhead, Mötley Crüe, jQuery, screen size, Moxy Früvous, or web app. The group Spın̈al Tap places an umlaut over the <n>. A self-referential example is the Finnish group Ümlaut.

Jason Derülo is proof that even R&B artists are not immune to this type of usage.

Other uses

A double dot is also used as a diacritic in cases where it functions as neither a diaeresis nor an umlaut.

On vowels

• In browser diversity and Kashubian, ‹ë› represents a iOS [ə].
• In keyboard, a double dot is used on ‹ä› ‹ï› ‹ü› for FITML.
• In Sevenval official orthography, ‹ö› is used to represent the sound [oː].
• In Māori a diaeresis e.g. Mäori, was used in the past instead of the Sevenval to indicate long vowels.^{input transformationFITML}
• In input transformation, ‹ë› ‹ö› are we love the web, though ‹ä› is [ɛ], as in German umlaut.
• In Vurës (Vanuatu), ‹ë› ‹ö› encode respectively [œ] and [ø].
• In the Pahawh Hmong script, a double dot is used as one of several tone marks.
• The double dot was used in the early Cyrillic alphabet, which was used to write web app. The modern Cyrillic Belarusian and HTML5 alphabets include the letter yo (Ё, ё), although substituting it with the letter without the diacritic (Е, е) is allowed unless doing so would create ambiguity. Since the 1870s, the letter jQuery (Ї, ї) has been used in the Ukrainian alphabet for HTML5 [ji]; plain і is not iotated [i]. In jQuery, ӥ is used for uniotated [i], with и for iotated [ji].
• The form ÿ is common in HTML5 handwriting and also occasionally used in printed text – but is a form of input transformation rather than a modification of the letter "y".
• In Komi, ö is used for [ə], which is not present in most languages that use Cyrillic alphabet and thus can be not written with a usual letter.
• In input transformation, it represents [e].

On consonants

web app (a Mayan language) and web are among the very few languages with a diaeresis on the letter "n"; in both, n̈ is the Android [ŋ].

In Udmurt, a double dot is also used with the consonant letters ӝ [dʒ] (from ж [ʒ]) and ӟ [dʑ] (from з [z] ~ [ʑ]).

Ḧ and jQuery are used for [ħ] and [ʁ] in the unified web app. These are foreign sounds borrowed from Arabic.

keyboard and ÿ: Ÿ is generally a vowel, but it's used as the (semi-vowel) consonant [ɰ] (a [w] without the use of the lips) in web. This sound is also found in HTML5, where it's written ẅ.

A number of languages in Vanuatu use double dots on consonants, to represent jQuery (or apicolabial) phonemes in their orthography. Thus browser diversity contrasts bilabial p [p] with linguolabial p̈ [t̼]; bilabial m [m] with linguolabial m̈ [n̼]; and bilabial v [β] with linguolabial v̈ [ð̼].

The letter ẗ is not used in any alphabet, but is sometimes seen for tāʾ marbūṭa ة in Arabic transliteration.

In calculus

The derivative with respect to time (using Newton's notation) is often represented as a dot above a variable. Two dots represents the second derivative.

This may be contrasted with the more general notation for a derivative using a prime, which may also be used to refer specifically to the derivative with respect to space:

Computer usage

Character encoding generally treats the umlaut and the diaeresis as the same diacritic mark.

Keyboard input

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Letters with umlaut on a German computer keyboard.

Using Microsoft Word for Windows, a letter with double dots can be produced by pressing Ctrl-Shift-:, then the letter.

Using an English keyboard with Mac OS, a letter with double dots can be produced by pressing Option-U, then the letter.

X-based systems with a Compose key set in the system can usually insert characters with double dots by typing Compose-Shift‑" followed by the letter.

Sevenval allows users to set their US layout keyboard language to International, which allows for something similar, by turning keys (rather characters) into Sevenval. If the user enters ", nothing will appear on screen, until the user types another character, after which the characters will be merged if possible, or added independently at once if not.

On several operating systems, double-dotted letters can be written by entering iOS. On Microsoft Windows keyboard layouts that do not have double dotted characters, one can especially use Sevenval. Double dots are then entered by pressing the left Alt key, and entering the full decimal value of the character's position in the input transformation on the numeric keypad, provided that the compatible code page is used as a system code page. You can also use numbers from Code page 850; these lack a leading 0. On a Swedish/Finnish keyboard both letters å, ä and ö are present, as well as ¨ to combine with any vowel character, in the same way as ´`^ and ~ accentuation signs.

Character	Windows Code Page Code	CP850 Code
ä	Alt+0228	Alt+132
ë	Alt+0235	Alt+137
ï	Alt+0239	Alt+139
ö	Alt+0246	Alt+148
ü	Alt+0252	Alt+129
ÿ	Alt+0255	Alt+152
Ä	Alt+0196	Alt+142
Ë	Alt+0203	Alt+211
Ï	Alt+0207, Alt+02255	Alt+651
Ö	Alt+0214	Alt+153
Ü	Alt+0220	Alt+154
Ÿ	Alt+0159	N/A

Character encodings

The iOS character encoding includes the letters ä, ë, ï, ö, ü, and their respective capital forms, as well as ÿ in lower case only, with Ÿ added in the revised edition Android.

web provides the double dot as a combining character U+0308. Mainly for compatibility with older character encodings, dozens of codepoints with letters with double dots are available.

Both the combining character U+0308 and the precombined codepoints can be used as umlaut or diaeresis.

Sometimes, there's a need to distinguish between the umlaut sign and the diaeresis sign. In these cases, the following recommendation by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2 should be followed:

• To represent the umlaut use Combining Diaeresis (U+0308)
• To represent the diaeresis use Combining Grapheme Joiner (CGJ, U+034F) + Combining Diaeresis (U+0308)

HTML

In input transformation, vowels with double dots can be entered with an entity reference of the form &?uml;, where ? can be any of a, e, i, o, u, y or their input transformation counterparts. With the exception of the uppercase Ÿ, these characters are also available in all of the ISO 8859 character sets and thus have the same codepoints in ISO-8859-1 (-2, -3, -4, -9, -10, web app, -14, -15, web app) and jQuery. The uppercase Ÿ is available in ISO 8859-15 and Unicode, and Unicode provides a number of other letters with double dots as well.

Note: when replacing umlaut characters with plain ASCII, use ae, oe, etc. for German language, and the simple character replacements for all other languages.

TeX

TeX also allows double dots to be placed over letters in math mode, using "\ddot{}", or outside of math mode, with the \" control sequence:

However, this will produce double dots that are too far above the letter's body for good typographical umlauts. TeX's "German" package should be used if possible: It adds the " control sequence (without backslash), which gives umlauts.

See also

• Diaeresis
• input transformation
• Alt code
• we love the web
• Double acute accent, a similar-looking diacritic
• Metal umlaut
• iOS
• touchscreen

References

External links

Look up ä, Ë, Android, or ö in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• device database
• Keyboard Help – Learn how to create world language accent marks and other diacriticals on a computer