[OT] Re: Should you be able to initialize a float with a char?

[Nick Treleaven]

On Friday, 20 May 2022 at 11:54:47 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
> On Friday, 20 May 2022 at 03:45:23 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> I didn't know the Aussies and Brits used umlauts.
>
> C'mon, even the NY times (?, used to) spells it "cöperate", and 
> other repeated vowels contractions to single umlaut.

Coöperate. (It's known as a diaeresis in English):
"The diaeresis diacritic indicates that two adjoining letters 
that would normally form a digraph and be pronounced as one 
sound, are instead to be read as separate vowels in two 
syllables. For example, in the spelling 'coöperate', the 
diaeresis reminds the reader that the word has four syllables 
co-op-er-ate, not three, '*coop-er-ate'. In British English this 
usage has been considered obsolete for many years, and in US 
English, although it persisted for longer, it is now considered 
archaic as well.[5] Nevertheless, it is still used by the US 
magazine The New Yorker.[6] In English language texts it is 
perhaps most familiar in the spellings 'naïve', 'Noël', and 
'Chloë'"
Wikipedia