Bug#1020574: perl-doc: encoding issue / spelling mistake with "perldoc perlfaq4"
Vincent Lefevre
vincent at vinc17.net
Sat Sep 24 02:44:59 BST 2022
On 2022-09-23 10:13:50 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> naïvely (and naïve) are correct alternate spellings in English. English
> historically uses a diaeresis to indicate that two adjacent vowels form
> separate syllables rather than a diphthong. This is one of the only
> "native" accept marks in the English language, which otherwise only uses
> accept marks in loan words and tends to drop them.
If naïve is correct, I find it strange that none of dict-gcide,
dict-wn and dict-foldoc have it, while they know "naive". Ditto
for naïvely vs naively in dict-gcide and dict-wn.
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