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Sep 11.2006

By that I mean actually an n with an umlaut. It is very uncommon but I am assured that this is actually a character in written language.

This article in wikipedia contains it in the Trivia section towards the bottom.

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_Tap[/url]

but I can’t figure out how they did it.

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@ray326Sep 11.2006 — Well, they refer to it but they don't actually USE it. The only place I see it on the page is in graphic images.
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@qasabahauthorSep 11.2006 — Using Opera I can see it. Even in view source.
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@Rossario123Sep 11.2006 — <i>
</i>&amp;Ntilde; for a cap

&amp;ntilde; for a lowercase
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@qasabahauthorSep 11.2006 — It doesn't look like a tilde though. It actually looks like an umlaut. I know there's something funny going on there because on my mac (Safari) it can't read the character.
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