Hi, Lugerdoc,
That is quite common in modern German, even in Germany, but when I do a direct quote from something or describe a marking, I prefer to use the vowel and then say it has the umlaut; otherwise it looks like I added a letter.
I once saw a Walther PP that Bubba claimed he captured from Goering. Sure enough, in electric pencil on the slide was "Herman Goering". Do you suppose it could have been fake?
Jim
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