Re: URL: Nova goes belly up in Japan.

Phil wrote:
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You did so well with your reference on this that I was wondering if you had
another reference. Looking at the article you referenced, following its
links, and doing some searches on my own; it appears the preferred
convention is to use two letters when typing rather than the umlauted y (ÿ)
or the ij ligature (ij). However, I was not able to find an authoritative
style manual. Do you, perhaps, know of one?
I think you meant to reply to Marc, but I'll answer. Not an authoritative one, no. However, I don't know of anyone that bothers with the special Dutch keyboard, and I live in a country where it's the official language. 'ij' is the standard choice.
KWW
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