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Never heard of an umlaut being used for a ditto mark, usually it’s a double quote: " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ditto_mark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dit

• Theodores 2y ago
  Creative use of early Epson printers was something I wasted a lot of time with, never with a word processor, because they did not really exist unless you paid hundreds of pounds to get one. I was coding forms for tabular data, doing silly things because the printed manual made that too tempting, so any excuse to use a character or escape code sequence was fair game. This was in an era when handwriting was commonly used so the convention for 'ditto' could be freestyled by me to be middle dots, umlauts or anything CHR(). The convenience of the keyboard, in an era before the PC was not really there.