[R] [OT] Re: umlauts in Rd files

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On 6/15/05, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
> Spencer Graves <spencer.graves <at> pdf.com> writes:
> > (This may not be relevant, but Google just gave me 788,000 hits for
> > "moebius" and 750,000 for "mobius".)  Perhaps one of our German
> > contributors could tell us which they prefer.
> 
> As you asked for it:  The former is correct, and the second is a misspelling. So
> there is no choice but simply "right" and "wrong".
> 
> The only alternative to the full '8-bit' spelling with an Umlaut is the
> 'transcribed 7-bit' form of replacing the 'two dots over the vowel' with an
> 'appended e after the vowel'.  As in Maechler, or in the From: field above.
> 
> The problem is that most of the world simply drops the dots: E.g. the comparison
>  of 'Wolfgang Hardle' and 'Wolfgang Haerdle' at scholar.google.com shows that the
> correct form is (barely) leading with a narrow 227 to 220.   My PhD dissertation

www.googlefight.com gives roughly 500 to 5000 in favor of "Wolfgang Haerdle".