Dear Friends, with an international keyboard on mac os 10.6 an umlaut is inserted according to the chosen keyboard layout with alt + u followed by a, o or u for ä, ö or ü, or with cmd + " followed by a, o or u for ä, ö or ü. Neither way works in the IDLE console or file window of IDLE. Both ways work on the python console in a terminal window.
IDLE version 3.2.2, Phyton version 3.2.2 and Tk version 8.5 according to IDLE -> "About IDLE". Names of the keyboard layouts: "US" and "US International - PC" Thank y'll for any Help -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list