[Foundation-l] My public aplogies to Jan-Bart (was Movement roles letter, Feb 2012)

[Thomas Dalton]

On Feb 16, 2012 3:22 PM, "Theo10011" <de10011 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Sue Gardner <sgardner at wikimedia.org>
wrote:
>
> > While we're on the topic, here's a public service announcement. It's
> > Bishakha Datta, not Bishaka Datta. The single most-frequently
> > misspelled name on our lists, AFAICT. Also, Erik Moeller or Erik
> > Möller with umlaut. Never Erik Moller with no umlaut :-)
>
>
> Oh cmon we're not going to start using umlauts (exception - heavy metal
> umlauts?).
>
> Erik has to settle with having his name misspelled, unless he considers
> changing it. ;)
> (think of all the time-saving from looking at the alt-key codes for us
> non-German keyboard users)

As Sue said, oe is an accepted way of saying ö if you can't easily get the
umlaut. Using o is just wrong (it would be pronounced completely
differently).