Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 37261
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4/19    How do I enter those funky 'o' with 2 dots, accented e, and other
        characters on my computer? And is motd non-English character compliant?
        \_ You mean the German umlaut? äüö
        \_ You mean the German umlaut? M-CM-$M-CM-<M-CM-6
        \_ Which OS?  And the motd is a text file.  Whether it supports
           UTF8 or Unicode or whatever is up to whatever programs people use
           to edit and to read the file, yes?
        \_ You mean àáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûüýÿ
        \_ You mean M-`M-aM-bM-cM-dM-eM-fM-gM-hM-iM-jM-kM-lM-mM-nM-oM-pM-qM-rM-s\
M-tM-uM-vM-xM-yM-zM-{M-|M-}
        \_  ObHeavyMetalUmlaut r0x0rs:
            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_umlaut
            -dans
        \_ if you're in screen, screen-escape ^V o :
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_umlaut
diaeresis in this usage, nor does it affect th e pronunciation of the band's name. Heavy metal umlauts have been parodied in film and fiction. Enlarge The graphic designer added the umlaut to the cover of Motrhead's first a lbum for sthetic reasons. edit Umlauts and diaereses The German word Umlaut roughly means sound change, as it is composed of u m- (a prefix often used with verbs involving "change") and Laut, meaning "sound". Ironically, these sounds tend to be pe rceived as "weaker" or "lighter" than the vowels represented by un-umlau tted u, o, and a, thus failing to create the intended impression of stre ngth and darkness. diaeresis refers to a diacritic graphically similar to the umlaut; the name comes from a Greek word meaning "divide or disti nguish". In Search of Space (1971) wrote on the backside of the cover: " TECHNICINS F SPCE SHIP ERTH THIS IS Y R CPTIN SPEKING YR PTIN IS DEAD". dou ble acute accent ( )two short lines slanting up and to the right rathe r like a right double-quote markinstead of dots. This was before Lemmy, later of Motrhead, had become a member of the group. Geoff Tate stat ed, "The umlaut over the 'y' has haunted us for years. We spent eleven y ears trying to explain how to pronounce it." Neal Stephenson features a fictional band called Pyzen Byzen, which one character describes as "not bad fo r a two-umlaut band". Mtiilation, this umlaut c annot affect pronounciation, as u and have the same sounds in French as in German. This album title actually has three consecutive gratuitous umlauts. The band's name has an umlaut over the I, but this may be acting as a diresis. The umlaut appeared in several album titles, such as Mekank Destruktw Kommandh and Khntarksz. However, this umlaut does affect pronunciation, and thus cannot be considered gratuitous. Death In June used um lauts (and in the second case, even accented e's) in the original releases of their albums The Wrld Tht Smmer (1985) and Th Wll f Scrific (1989) - and, on these releases, also in the band name, leading to Deth In Jne (resp. Swedes the tour T-shirts from this time are particularly amusing, as "Trjan" in Swedish translates as "the shirt". Grvis Malt has an umlaut in their name, but it may not be gratuitous, since it clarifies the pronunciation as "oo" rather than "uh".