Neither does "diairesis"

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Yes I did worry too much about that question (among others), but then I realized that the word "vowel" does indeed have vowels, so at least some self-referential order is restored in the universe. Why separate form and substance if you don't have to?

Hold on -- I thought of one: haÄek contains a haÄek!

(It works on preview. Of course, with ScienceBlogs horrible Unicode support, you'll probably just see some ASCII junk when I hit Post.)

A simple trick will make sure that UTF-8 gets through: do not ever use the preview window.

There are sometimes spelling errors in my comments, because I can't use the preview for proofreading. The glorious umlaut in my name would get borked.

By Lassi Hippeläinen (not verified) on 25 Aug 2008 #permalink

And why aren't all occurrences of the word "red" not red? And why do I see no websites that show every occurrence of the word "big" in font size=+8? And so on.

Since we're being pedantic - we weren't? well so what? - I am sure diaerisis is the correct spelling.

Now, on the thread subject, what about humans? - eg there was a minister in the New South Wales government called Aquilina with an aquiline nose; our esteemed Vice-Chancellor here at ANU is called Chubb and has a chubby face.

Questions for serious consideration - was Albert Schweitzer in fact Swiss? Was Ike Eisenhower from an ironworking family? Did either Roosevelt own a field of roses? (Did Margaret Thatcher teach Sir Geoffrey Howe? Sorry - couldn't resist it.)

The people want to know.

Alas, our Prime Minister Rudd is not especially ruddy-featured.

By John Monfries (not verified) on 25 Aug 2008 #permalink

Hm. Fiddling with HTML entities...

Ümläüt?

háček?

háček?

By Owlmirror (not verified) on 31 Aug 2008 #permalink

Gesundheit!

WIN!

HTML Entities used:

Ümläüt?

háček? (NB: This uses the Unicode character LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CARON' (U+010D))

háček? (NB: This uses Unicode character LATIN SMALL LETTER C (U+0063) COMBINING CARON (U+030C))

Reference used:

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/index.htm

By Owlmirror (not verified) on 31 Aug 2008 #permalink

Hm.

The server headers do not appear to include a character set specification.

The header of this page includes:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

Isn't that something you can directly configure to be UTF-8 on your end?

By Owlmirror (not verified) on 31 Aug 2008 #permalink