Ondrej Jób has just posted his "Context of Diacritics"
A worthy effort and a big thank you from all type designers.
What I like about this is that through this work it has become rather easy to see how all these accents work in ‘real life’. On the other hand, I also found some things that are somewhat questionable (in my opinion, being Dutch).
Dutch language
jè
I am afraid that I’ve never seen that word. Google tells me that it may occur in ‘jè t’aime’, but that is a typo of ‘je t’aime’. Which may occur in Dutch texts, but ‘je t’aime’ is not Dutch, it is French for saying ‘I love you’.
chambéryzomer
That seems to be a typo. Could be Chambery zomer (‘Chambéry summer’, could be an offering of a travelling agent, alternatively to ‘Chambéry spring’. But that does not turn Chambéry into a Dutch word. Chambéry is a place in France.
eénvandaag
Similar to chambéryzomer. Could be ‘één vandaag’ (one for today). But that does not make it a sample for the occurrence of eén in Dutch. I have seen éen in Dutch but never eén.
matthäus
As far as I know, Matthäus is not an official Dutch word, it is the German way of writing Mattheus (the evangelist). Shure one can find ‘Matthäus’ in a Dutch text, but that alone does not make it a Dutch word.
köppen
My Dutch dictionary does not list that word and I would not know what ‘köppen’ might mean. Köppen might occur in Dutch text as the name of the German author who wrote several books on color models. But in such a case Köppen is written with a capital K.
luïciüs
Google tells me that this is probably derived from the family name ‘van Stipriaan Luïciüs’. I only found 9 entries with that name, they refer to two people, a father and his son who lived around 1900. How Dutch is that? Or more serious: Is that really relevant to the Dutch language?
sébastien
Not a Dutch word, but a French name: ‘Sébastien’. The Dutch would write ‘Sebastiaan’.
Anyway, I could not find mistakes like this in the German section, so maybe the quality of the Dutch section is just an exception. Still I hope that Ondrej will find some time to check and correct it.
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This is a bit of a different matter but I need some verification. What do you think of Één? In lowercase it's supposed to be één and yet with a capital letter I mostly see Eén. I always assumed that's a mistake considering it's a bit less obvious for some how to add an accent to the capital letter, and as far as I can reason now this and 'überhaubt' are the only cases in the Dutch language where a capital letter might get a diacritic — unless the whole word is capitalized of course.
I think Eén looks better, but it's logically inconsistent.