Hi Will, You wrote: >WL: hi as i use a british layout i cant get the ugerman umlauts to >work. >how can i type the umlauts by setting the kebyaord to german in the >input tab of international?
Following Greg's suggestion for the Swedish keyboard I tried using the left bracket, apostrophe, and semi-colon keys on my Mac with the German keyboard set-up. Here are the keyboard sequences for typing umlauts by setting the keyboard to German in the input tab of the International menu in system preferences. (Remember to select German under Text Input on the menu bar -- VO-keys+m twice, right arrow to Text Input, type "G" for German and return): ü (umlaut u) for [ (left bracket - key to right of letter p on U.S. keyboard) ä (umlaut a) for ' (apostrophe - key to left of carriage return key) ö (umlaut o) for ; (semi-colon - key to right of letter l and left of apostrophe) ß (eszett or sharp ess) is where my hyphen key is -- to the left of number 0 The key combinations using the option key that I described earlier (with the U.S. keyboard) also all work for me with the British keyboard setting: ü (umlaut u) Press Option+u keys; release and then press u ä (umlaut a) Press Option+u keys; release and then press a ö (umlaut o) Press Option+u keys; release and then press o ß (eszett or sharp ess) Option+s The only thing that may be painful about this is typing at speed, since you need to make sure that the Option and u keys are released before pressing the key you want accented. However, I prefer to use my standard keyboard and enter French accents this way. Be aware that some of your other letters will not be where you expect --- I tried to type "hyphen" to record the key setting for the eszett key in the German keyboard and got the "z" in place of the "y". These two keys are switched. On the French keyboard letters "a" and "q" are switched and the "w" and "z" keys are switched. I have a hard time typing at speed with the "a" key in a different position. HTH Cheers, Esther
