On 2019 Feb 21 17:05:00, you wrote to Maurice Kinal:   
      
    MK>> Near as I can figure dec 148 in PC8 would be the "LATIN SMALL LETTER   
    MK>> O WITH DIAERESIS" which in latin1 is dec 246 or the ö character in   
    MK>> utf8.   
      
    HG> The expression 'diaeresis' doesn't exist in my vocabulary or dictionary.   
    HG> However, if diaeresis is the same as the 'divide' sign on the numeric   
    HG> keyboard I agree. That comes out as the Umlaut 'o' in when translated   
    HG> from Latin 1.   
      
   https://www.google.com/search?q="O+WITH+DIAERESIS"   
      
   looking at the above, one can see that "diaeresis" is "two dots on top"...   
      
   the O or o with the forward slash like the divided-by symbol is its own   
   separate vowel character/letter in Scandianiavian...   
      
   diaeresis and umlaut look the same (two dots on top) but they signify   
   different pronounciations...   
      
     "The diaeresis and the umlaut are diacritics marking two distinct   
      phonological phenomena. The diaeresis represents the phenomenon   
      also known as diaeresis or hiatus in which a vowel letter is   
      pronounced separately from an adjacent vowel and not as part of a   
      digraph or diphthong. The umlaut (/'?mla?t/), in contrast, indicates   
      a sound shift. These two diacritics originated separately; the   
      diaeresis is considerably older."   
      
   in unicode, both are coded the same so something like HTML ä is both   
   a-umlaut and a-diaeresis in the same way that the hyphen and minus are   
   represented by the same character glyph...   
      
   the above gleaned in about 10 minutes research on the web ;)   
      
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