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It's a matter of debate if u + ¨ is an umlaut, that's really depending on the definition of umlaut.

Interestingly it's possible to combine ü + ¨ to pile up tremas

Hü̈tte Hü̈̈tte

I see huts with smoking chimneys ;-)

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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Re^4: incorrect length of strings with diphthongs
by choroba (Cardinal) on Aug 30, 2022 at 21:22 UTC
    There's also ű in Hungarian (called "double acute" in Unicode).

    map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]
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      Using two bars instead of dots is acceptable in German, there are fonts which realize the umlauts ä,ö,ü this way. (see also this )

      That's because of the weird form of Kurrent's small e being written above the vowels.

      Apparently this is also connected to the history of the Czech letter Ů ů with an o superscript.

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
      Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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        Yes, but in Hungarian, ö and ő, and ü and ű are different letters (the double acute makes the vowel "longer").

        map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]
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