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Why not WaylandWhy not WaylandPosted Mar 5, 2013 1:41 UTC (Tue) by mezcalero (subscriber, #45103)In reply to: Why not Wayland by HelloWorld Parent article: Canonical reveals plans to launch Mir display server (The H)
Indeed. Umlauts are for suckers. A true Poettering is written with "oe" instead. After all, I am not a Metal band.
To make this point I even invested my hard-earned money in this page:
(You need some German language skills to grok that ;-))
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Why not Wayland Posted Mar 5, 2013 3:42 UTC (Tue) by leightonbrown (subscriber, #6264) [Link]
so.... is X next on your list:)
Why not Wayland Posted Mar 5, 2013 7:02 UTC (Tue) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]
By "oe" you mean "œ"? So Pœttering? :)
Why not Wayland Posted Mar 5, 2013 9:49 UTC (Tue) by micka (subscriber, #38720) [Link]
I'm not familiar with german, but if it's oe it's oe not œ (same thing the other way).
In french, we have words that are written œ like cœur and other that are written oe like moelleux.
Why not Wayland Posted Mar 5, 2013 12:34 UTC (Tue) by chithanh (guest, #52801) [Link]
In German you don't have many ligatures. The only widespread one is ß which is a ligature of ſs or ſʒ depending on your font. And this ligature is even not used when the letters are in capitals or at the beginning of a word (like in "Szene"). A capital version of the ligature(ẞ) is now adopted in Unicode but has been mostly ignored so far.
Why not Wayland Posted Mar 5, 2013 22:06 UTC (Tue) by andreasb (subscriber, #80258) [Link]
The German umlauts originated from the 'ae', 'oe' and 'ue' combinations. Instead of contracting them to something like 'æ', a small 'e' was written above the first letter and over time was reduced to two short lines/dots.
So basically œ and ö have similar origins and only diverged through different typographic traditions.
Why not Wayland Posted Mar 6, 2013 7:41 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]
very interesting, thanks. :)
Why not Wayland Posted Mar 6, 2013 9:19 UTC (Wed) by tnoo (subscriber, #20427) [Link]
> a small 'e' was written above the first letter
In old German handwriting, the lowercase "e" was just two parallel, slightly inclined lines, with connecting ligatures to the letters before and after. Thus these are two vertical lines or two dots in today's handwriting, and two dots in almost all typesetting.
Why not Wayland Posted Mar 6, 2013 16:39 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]
Oh, and that then means Poettering *can* be written equivalently and correctly as Pöttering? :)
Why not Wayland Posted Mar 6, 2013 17:28 UTC (Wed) by jwakely (subscriber, #60262) [Link]
So he *is* a heavy metal band? This is all very confusing.
Why not Wayland Posted Mar 6, 2013 18:05 UTC (Wed) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link] You're supposed to use »oe« if the person spells their name with »ö« but you can't use the umlaut (air travel tickets come to mind). If a person spells their name with »oe« to begin with (as in »Poettering«), substituting »ö« would be considered a mis-spelling. The general assumption is that if they spell their name like that, they prefer it like that, and it is a matter of common courtesy (rather than linguistics) to go along. So, no equivalence.
Why not Wayland Posted Mar 6, 2013 18:14 UTC (Wed) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]
In this case yes, but I don't think it's universally true.
Cheers,
Why not Wayland Posted Mar 6, 2013 19:30 UTC (Wed) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]
> > Oh, and that then means Poettering *can* be written equivalently and correctly as Pöttering?
> In this case yes No. Please read the thread. He says himself that Pöttering is not a correct spelling: https://lwn.net/Articles/541159/ mezcalero is Poettering's nickname on lwn, in case you weren't aware.
Why not Wayland Posted Mar 6, 2013 20:51 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]
woosh... ;) (my comment was written in full awareness of that comment)
Why not Wayland Posted Mar 6, 2013 20:46 UTC (Wed) by andreasb (subscriber, #80258) [Link]
As mentioned, 'ö' is expandable to 'oe' when you can't write umlauts for some reason. The inverse isn't necessarily true (can't come up with examples though) and especially not for names.
Names are spelled the way they have "always" been spelled and do not have to match current orthography. For example, someone called Schmidt, Schmid, Schmitt or any other variation can not simply be "corrected" to Schmied (smith) even though that's the current spelling.
Why not Wayland Posted Mar 8, 2013 1:34 UTC (Fri) by mezcalero (subscriber, #45103) [Link]
No, my name is Poettering, not Pöttering. You can check my passport. There's no umlaut in my name.
Lennart
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