[python] Re: Off topic: umlauts and such

At 10:33 AM 9/14/2005, you wrote:
>this is the old german writing and the line above the u does NOT
>mean ü. It is only there to distinguish the u and the n which look
>quite similar. So the correct name is Schumacher and not
>Schümacher.

Sounds reasonable, and I did just search and find
http://gwdu05.gwdg.de/~nwinnig//adel.htm which illustrates this

> Don´t know the unicode for ü but there must be
>some tables on the net.

Windows' charmap.exe does show the codes for ü and û, but not that upside-down 
û-thing, thus the question.

>Which town is your grandpa from?

I wish I knew where the g-g-grandfather was from (grandpa was born here); I 
only know it was Prussia and he was a very young merchant marine who jumped 
ship in Wisconsin ~1865. It is one of the things that I want to find out before 
I make my next European trip.

Thanks,
Ray

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