Diaeresis

Diaeresis

Two dots placed over a Latin vowel to indicate that the vowel is pronounced as a separate syllable (as in the word “naïve”). Typically used when two vowels are adjacent, but should be pronounced separately rather than as a diphthong.

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Industry/Domain: Software; Translation & localization
Category: Internationalization (I18N)
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Two horizontal dots over a letter, as in naïve. The diaeresis is not distinguished from the umlaut in the Unicode character encoding.

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The pronunciation of two adjacent vowels as separate sounds rather than as a dipthong, as in coordinate; also, the mark indicating the separate pronunciation, as in naïve.

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