Hi Will, >hi again yeah it confused me when it say diarysys thing lol not umlaut >
Probably my fault for not spelling "diaeresis" the way that VoiceOver wanted; I used a variant spelling in my first post (just "a" instead of "ae" when I wrote about umlauts. There aren't many instances in English where the diaeresis gets used -- mostly examples of names like Zoë, where the accent mark over the e gives the word two syllables instead of one. Glad it all works. Cheers, Esther P.S. It's also disconcerting not to find the "m" key in the usual place on a French keyboard. >On 28 Mar 2008, at 15:55, Esther wrote: > >> 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 >> > > > >
