When working with medieval texts (e.g. from the 14th century) written in e.g. German there are certain characters or ligatures that cannot be represented with most digital fonts. One of the simpler examples of those characters are predecessors of today’s German umlauts like „ü“. In 14th century texts you find those written as „uͤ“. During transcription you could simply represent them with „ue“ or „ue“. While this works some of the characteristics of the original are altered or lost.
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