As a slight help, you don't have to figure out how to make umlauts with your
keyboard in order to successfully search. In general, you can replace any
umlauted vowel with vowel+e. For example, when searching for "Dürer",
"Duerer" will get you to the same set of files. "Durer", however, won't.
The character "ß" is more annoying, but can be produced by pressing Num Lock
on your keyboard, then holding down Alt as you type 225 on the numerical
keypad (usually on the right side of your keyboard, with arrows on some of
the numbers). In the same way:
ä = Alt 132
Ä = Alt 142
ö = Alt 148
Ö = Alt 153
ü = Alt 129
Ü = Alt 154
Or, do what I usually do, and hunt around whatever page of Bildindex you
happen to be on until you see the character you need, then cut & paste!
Personally, I've gotten used to searching bildindex whilst keeping a window
in the background with Google's translation utility:
http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
After years of using Bildindex and the like, I now have a bizzarely specific
German vocabulary...
-E House
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