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I do not have a solution for OCLC because I've found it difficult to work with when using less common diacritics, so I am eagerly following this conversation.</div>
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I would, however, suggest that the u be represented with a superscript Roman o instead of rendering it as an umlaut, as Karen suggested. It would take a bit of research to truly determine if an umlaut's function was meant there, as a u with a superscript o
can mean several things in sixteenth-century German (some dialects used it as a graphematic distinction between u and n, other dialects used it to signal a /uo/ diphthong separate from /ue/). I think it's actually more likely it was not intended to be read
as an umlaut, so we should not assume it was meant to be one.</div>
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Please do let me know if a solution is found regarding the superscript character not in OCLC's menu! </div>
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<b>Cc:</b> Karen Attar <karen.attar@london.ac.uk><br>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi Calli,</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The superscript “o” is clearly meant to function as an umlaut. It’s interesting that there’s a letter u with a superscript character above it in the place of an umlaut in one instance, though mostly u has
a regular umlaut above it where required.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We are moving in the direction of transcribing letters as they are meant to be (e.g. vv where there is a slight space between the two letters v is now transcribed as w). Under those circumstances, lacking
technical power to transcribe the superscript o, if I were in this dilemma I would transcribe as ö, and add a note about how the umlauts are represented on the title page.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I do not actually enter things on OCLC, so if somebody from the US answers your email, follow what they say, not what I say.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Best wishes,<br>
Karen</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dr Karen Attar</span></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> [DCRM-L] Transcription of German superscript "o"</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">I'm cataloging disbound leaves of a German book from 1556, which is digitized
<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/New_gro%C3%9F_distillier_Buch_wolgegr%C3%BCndter/-nhVAAAAcAAJ?hl=en" originalsrc="https://www.google.com/books/edition/New_gro%C3%9F_distillier_Buch_wolgegr%C3%BCndter/-nhVAAAAcAAJ?hl=en" title="https://www.google.com/books/edition/New_gro%C3%9F_distillier_Buch_wolgegr%C3%BCndter/-nhVAAAAcAAJ?hl=en">
here</a><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/New_gro%C3%9F_distillier_Buch_wolgegr%C3%BCndter/-nhVAAAAcAAJ?hl=en" originalsrc="https://www.google.com/books/edition/New_gro%C3%9F_distillier_Buch_wolgegr%C3%BCndter/-nhVAAAAcAAJ?hl=en" title="https://www.google.com/books/edition/New_gro%C3%9F_distillier_Buch_wolgegr%C3%BCndter/-nhVAAAAcAAJ?hl=en"><span style="text-decoration:none">
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">My question is about the superscript "o" in "Buch" in the title. The example in the table of Early Letterforms & Symbols shows that the letter should be transcribed with the superscript character
("můss"). The same example also appears in a wonderful post from the Folger <a href="https://www.folger.edu/blogs/collation/brevigraphs/" originalsrc="https://www.folger.edu/blogs/collation/brevigraphs/" title="https://www.folger.edu/blogs/collation/brevigraphs/">
here</a>: "In German ... it really is a superscript <i>o</i>, a medieval superscript letter diacritic." There is a footnote that says this should not confused with the ring diacritic ("overring"), and that "Combining Latin Small Letter o" is Unicode U+0366.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">Assuming I'm on the right track, how should this be entered in OCLC? There is only a ring in the diacritics and special characters menu. Unsure whether I can copy & paste a "u" with the Unicode
character indicated above, and it does not look right pasted in Connexion.</span></p>
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