>and the same to you and everybody else!
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>(Fröhliche Weihnachten [ö=alt 148])
It is also considered acceptable to write "ö" as "oe" [and ü as ue, and ä as ae]. This is done, for instance, if you have trouble with the keyboard, or for similar difficulties (like domain names! - see below). In fact, this is considered standard in crossword puzzles.
It is interesting to note that in a few months, Germans will be able to use letters like ö, ü and ä directly in domain names.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
