Help please - German symbols on the computer?

Category: Language and Culture

Post 1 by Chicken Scratch (Account disabled) on Thursday, 21-Aug-2008 18:52:56

So ... I need to write some German symbols (the ü and the ß, stuff like that - and I copied and pasted those) on the computer. But I'm not sure what key commands to do to get them. *Headdesk can anyone help? Things like esset, the umlauted symbols ... Stuff like that. Any help welcome
Scratch

Post 2 by Albanac (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Tuesday, 16-Sep-2008 9:37:21

First of all, it's necessary to go to regional settings, languages and set up your keyboard for using those symbols. Once this is done, as far as I remember they are:
s tset: -
o umlaut: ;
a umlat: '
u umlaut: [
y and z are swapped.
the rest is just punctuation differences as far as I remember, like shift . is : and not >. Can't remember the rest.

Hope this help,

Cheers,
Simon

Post 3 by idoefraty (Newborn Zoner) on Tuesday, 23-Sep-2008 18:50:03

Hey , One more thing I may add to the symbols as far as I remember, and if I'm not mistaken, you also have the double s sign, which is Shift + 3.good luck.
Ido

Post 4 by 'Alika (Zone BBS Addict) on Sunday, 30-Nov-2008 17:18:30

Here is how you do them.

A Umlaut: control plus shift plus semicolon, followed by A
O Umlaut: control plus shift plus semicolon, followed by O
U Umlaut: control plus shift plus semicolon, followed by u

Is there a way to do the s set? I always just write two s's.

Post 5 by Albanac (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Saturday, 13-Dec-2008 11:15:14

The double s thing is shift - not shift 3. Didnt' know about the ctrl+shift+; though, thanks for that. Personally though I'd just set it up in regional settings, and use alt+shift to switch between the character sets, far easier.

cheers,
Simon

Post 6 by Blue Velvet (I've got the platinum golden silver bronze poster award.) on Thursday, 18-Dec-2008 9:16:14

I don't know if this will be of any help to anyone, but I just read about this today in Top Tech Tidbits...

"It's Not on the Keyboard: Typing Special Characters and Foreign Languages in Word" By Anna Dresner is now available as a download or braille book for
$5.00 from National Braille Press.
http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/SPECIAL.html