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Originally Posted by HarryT
Is the use of the umlaut rather than a following "e" always optional?
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No. Under normal circumstances, and given a contemporary text, you'd definitely use the umlaut if possible. Only if those are not available for some reason (think typewriters, later ASCII) would you fall back to this transliteration.
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I notice, for example, that the name of the author, "Goethe", is always spelt in that way - I've never seen his name spelt "Göthe".
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That's because he spelled it that way. No messing with proper names
