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It has been used occasionally for the last century, long before there were blogs or posts. I collected a few examples here http://imgur.com/a/NaFgA http://imgu
by germanier 8y ago
It has been used occasionally for the last century, long before there were blogs or posts. I collected a few examples here http://imgur.com/a/NaFgA http://imgur.com/a/NaFgA
The most compelling argument is that this character has been used on German passports since at least 1988 (I don't know whether they started this even earlier). On passports, names are written in capital letters by international standard. That character is necessary to accurately represent people's names.
- int_19h 8y agoI'm kind of surprised that the international standard permits a letter that isn't found in any other alphabet. For those of us who have names in languages that use non-Latin alphabets, our passports spell them out using Latin letters (usually resulting in something that rarely sounds like the original when pronounced in a sensible way).
- Tomte 8y agoThe machine-readable line gets substituted letters (ü --> ue). The "normal page" doesn't. Gave me a tense moment in China, when a border agent questioned the difference between the name on my ticket and the name in the passport. Of course, to Germans both forms are interchangeable, but I'd compare a Chinese letter sign by sign, too. He finally accepted it when I showed him that the machine-readable line was identically spelled.