Character encoding generally treats the umlaut and the diaeresis as the same diacritic mark. The "diaeresis" and the "umlaut" are diacritics marking two distinct phonological phenomena. Sometimes, there's a need to distinguish between the umlaut sign and the diaeresis sign. Germanic umlaut and Germanic strong verb. Plural and diminutive nouns based on Umlaut start to prevail east towards Germany. Note&colon; when replacing umlaut characters with plain ASCII, use "ae, oe," etc. The Germanic umlaut is a famous example. This process is called the Germanic umlaut. Most conspicuously, Gothic shows no sign of morphological umlaut. In umlaut forms, the difference usually reoccurs&colon; or vs. . Puscifer's original name was Umlaut, "a premiere improvisational hardcore band". When the umlaut was dropped, Kenny switched to a different name. These changes are generally the result of umlaut effects in Proto-Samic. This triggers umlaut, as explained above. The "umlaut" (), in contrast, indicates a sound shift.