On 06/01/18 16:19, Spencer Graves wrote:
On 2018-01-05 20:52, Rolf Turner wrote:
In a help file that I am writing I wish to cite an item by a bloke
whose surname is Weiß.
Write it "Weiss".
See "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F";.
That name is written "Weiss" in Switzerland and Liechtenstein but
"Weiß" in Germany and Austria. German is the official language of
Liechtenstein and the primary of four official languages of Switzerland.
Standard high German has several characters that are not used in
English but have standard transliterations using the English latin
alphabet. These include "ß" = "ss", "ä" = "ae", "ö" = "oe" and "ü" = "ue".
<SNIP>
I'm sure that you're correct, but I find it frustrating not to be able
to produce a symbol (which is readily available elsewhere --- e.g. in
LaTeX or from the keyboard using the "compose key") under the ".Rd"
system. I'd like to be *able to produce it*, even if I shouldn't! :-)
cheers,
Rolf
P. S. It also seems to me to be polite --- if that's the way the bloke
writes his name, then that's the way that I ought to write it when
referring to him.
R.
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