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From: Ben Finney <ben+emacs@benfinney.id.au>
Subject: Re: special characters for HTML
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 14:21:05 +1000
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William Henney <whenney@gmail.com> writes:

> Why don't you just write the umlauts directly: ü
>
> Either use the facilities of your OS, or use one of the German input
> methods of Emacs. For the latter, see the docs for "C-\". For the
> former, it all depends on your OS and your keyboard.

Exactly. We're in the third millennium of the calendar, folks; we have
Unicode. The way to get a character into a text document is to put it in
literally.

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Ben Finney