2009/3/11 David Morton <mortonda@dgrmm.net>

Édouard Gilbert wrote:

> And I discovered some years ago that some english-speaking people
> don’t even know there are other layouts than US.
>

As is true when it comes to data formats, and language, too. As one of
those US centric people, I still have yet to find someone to tell me how
'ü' sounds different from 'u'and all that. I have learned 'ñ' from
Spanish class. :) For that matter, is there an audible distinction
between Édouard and Edouard? (Or if I were to naively translate to a
more english name, Edward) Yes, I speak out of ignorance. At least I
know how to type the right letters. :)

Well as another french speaker, I can respond :

In french, the ¨ is a mark that a vowels combo is not a diphtong (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diphthong), and sometime it's just a disambiguation sign (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis) .

In German, it's different, as "ü" is pronounced as a french "u" :-)

Too bad that computer ASCII was invented by english speakers, English is one of the rare european language without diacritics.

As you see, I have the same first name as you, spelling the same, but I can assure you that there is a real and audible difference (and never speak of my last name, as I have always had to spell it when travelling)

Thanks for listening …