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Kaffrine
Can we use other words to stand for ä ö ß?
Hallo! i have some products put on Amazon.de, but some special words can not show on, it turns to be "?". For example, i wrote Römer on the website, but it turns to be "R?mer". And someone told me to turn ä=ae ö=oe ü=ue
Ü=Ue Ä=Ae Ö=Oe ß=ss, i don't know if they are the same meaning,for example,can Roemer instead of Römer ? Pls help me.
Vielen Dank!
Aug 8, 2014 8:34 AM
Answers · 8
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Correct. But ugly.
Instead of characters you should try HTML entities
ä = ä
Ä - Ä
...etc...
ß = &szling;
http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/web/codehtml.html
August 8, 2014
Amazon.de can display products with umlauts. Ask their support how to encode/input umlauts properly so they do appear in the product name. One possible reason might be that your browser is using a chinese encoding, so amazon rejects these, and therefore you may have to change some browser settings. But that is just a guess.
HTML-style encoding might or might not work, ask them.
It will look a lot more professional with umlauts instead of the substitutions, though in principle the substitutions are equivalent.
August 8, 2014
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Kaffrine
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Chinese (Mandarin), German
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