A Dieresis I Don’t Often See

A dieresis is two dots above the second of a pair of vowels to show that you pronounce each vowel; it’s not a diphthong. Perhaps the most common example is in the word coöperative, or maybe naïve.

Here’s another, from the New Yorker, of course:

Last summer, a coalition of environmental groups around the country sent T.N.C. a letter asking it to reëvaluate support for promoting forestry as a “natural climate solution” and, in particular, to come out against burning trees to produce electricity—the so-called biomass energy that scientists now understand to be a major climate threat and that sociologists know to be a prime example of environmental racism.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/its-not-the-heat-its-the-humanity

Usually people use a hyphen because they don’t know how to make a dieresis. Hence, re-evaluate and co-operative. That’s okay.

here’s a picture of the ASCII codes for the dieresis:

An Infrequently-used Punctuation Mark
Hold down the Alt key while you type the appropriate code on the numeric keypad. Then release the Alt key.