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Old Dec 1, 2022 | 7:50 am
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PNRs cannot accept ÄÖ etc, so you have to conver Ä to AE and Ö to OE. Key is what is on the machine readable line on your passport. That is governed by ICAO document 9303

Section 6 of the 9303 part 3 document specifies transliteration of letters outside the A–Z range. It recommends that diacritical marks on Latin letters A-Z are simply omitted (ç → C, ð → D, ê → E, ñ → N etc.), but it allows the following transliterations:
  • å → AA
  • ä → AE
  • ð → DH
  • ij (Dutch letter; capital form: IJ, the J as part of the ligature being capitalized, too)→ IJ
  • ö → OE
  • ü → UE (German) or UXX (Spanish; not used in reality)
  • ñ → NXX (not used in reality)
The following transliterations are mandatory:
  • æ → AE
  • ø, œ → OE
  • ß → SS
  • þ → TH
In Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary and Scandinavia it is standard to use the Å→AA, Ä or Æ→AE, Ö or Ø→OE, Ü→UE, and ß→SS mappings, so Müller becomes MUELLER, Gößmann becomes GOESSMANN, and Hämäläinen becomes HAEMAELAEINEN. ð, ñ and ü occur in Iceland and Spain, but they write them as D, N and U.

Austrian passports may (but do not always) contain a trilingual (in German, English, and French) explanation of the German umlauts and ß, e.g. 'ß' entspricht / is equal to / correspond à 'SS'.
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