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English translation: Preferable to stick to Scandinavian orthography

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Finnish term or phrase:ö
English translation:Preferable to stick to Scandinavian orthography
Entered by: Rika Katsuta (X)

03:49 Feb 12, 2014
Finnish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Names (personal, company) / Proper noun
Finnish term or phrase: ö
Umlauts in Finnish?

Is there any way that I can type ‘ö’ as English alphabet?
I have found that this can be changed to ‘oe’ as I have seen in German word like "München" is "Muenchen". But that is not really Finnish language,and I cannot use umlauts in a context.
For example, if the name “Väätäinen” ,can I write as “vaeaetaeinen”? or just “Vaatainen” is simply better?

I appreciate your help.
Rika Katsuta (X)
Japan
Local time: 08:15
Preferable to stick to Scandinavian orthography
Explanation:
In the times of modern technology, it should not be impossible for you to use "ä" or "ö", when required. There are various ways how you can do it. However, if it is impossible for some reason, I would prefer "a" and "o", like international media has done with the Finnish F1 drivers' surnames Häkkinen and Räikkönen (Hakkinen and Raikkonen). The umlauts look AWFUL in Finnish words. Most often Finns will be able to "correct" the words not written with /ä/ or /ö/ in their minds to the right spelling.
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Outi Pollari
Finland
Local time: 02:15
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5 +5Preferable to stick to Scandinavian orthography
Outi Pollari
5 +1ALT+148
finnword1


  

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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +5
Preferable to stick to Scandinavian orthography


Explanation:
In the times of modern technology, it should not be impossible for you to use "ä" or "ö", when required. There are various ways how you can do it. However, if it is impossible for some reason, I would prefer "a" and "o", like international media has done with the Finnish F1 drivers' surnames Häkkinen and Räikkönen (Hakkinen and Raikkonen). The umlauts look AWFUL in Finnish words. Most often Finns will be able to "correct" the words not written with /ä/ or /ö/ in their minds to the right spelling.

Outi Pollari
Finland
Local time: 02:15
Native speaker of: Native in FinnishFinnish
PRO pts in category: 6
Grading comment
Thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Carina Jansson
28 mins
agree  Spencer Allman
1 hr
agree  Jenni Tuhkanen (X)
2 hrs
agree  Melina Kajander
5 hrs
agree  Susan Ruusunen
8 hrs
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10 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
ALT+148


Explanation:
You could always use extended ASCII codes found on the numeric keypad: http://www.asciitable.com
lower case ä = ALT + 132
upper case Ä = ALT + 142
lower case ö = ALT + 148
upper case Ö = ALT + 153

finnword1
United States
Local time: 19:15
Native speaker of: Finnish
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you but unfortunately my question was not about keyboard usage.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Desmond O'Rourke: excellent advice
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