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<!DOCTYPE translit SYSTEM "translit.dtd">


<!--

  Transliteration definitions for the common transliteration of German
  umlauts.

  Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Alex Linke <alinke@lingua-systems.com>
  Copyright (C) 2009 Lingua-Systems Software GmbH

  See Duden - Band 1: "Die deutsche Rechtschreibung", Mannheim, 2001,
    p. 105f., "Maschinenschreiben und E-Mails"

-->


<translit>

    <!-- meta data -->

    <name>Common DEU</name>

    <desc>German umlauts</desc>

    <reverse>false</reverse>


    <!-- set of transliteration rules -->

    <rules>

        <rule>
            <from>&#x00C4;</from>   <!-- Ä -->
            <to>Ae</to>
        </rule>

        <rule>
            <from>&#x00E4;</from>   <!-- ä -->
            <to>ae</to>
        </rule>

        <rule>
            <from>&#x00D6;</from>   <!-- Ö -->
            <to>Oe</to>
        </rule>

        <rule>
            <from>&#x00F6;</from>   <!-- ö -->
            <to>oe</to>
        </rule>

        <rule>
            <from>&#x00DC;</from>   <!-- Ü -->
            <to>Ue</to>
        </rule>

        <rule>
            <from>&#x00FC;</from>   <!-- ü -->
            <to>ue</to>
        </rule>

        <!--
	    An 'ß' in a word in all caps is transliterated in
	    all caps, too.

	    As 'ß' will never be word initial and will at least
	    only very seldomly appear as a second character, a word
	    is believed to be in all caps, if the preceeding character
	    is a capital one.
	-->

        <rule>
            <from>&#x00DF;</from>   <!-- ß -->
            <to>SS</to>
            <context>
                <after>\p{IsUpper}</after>
            </context>
        </rule>

        <rule>
            <from>&#x00DF;</from>   <!-- ß -->
            <to>ss</to>
        </rule>

    </rules>

</translit>


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  vim: sts=4 sw=4 ai et
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