English keyboard and using austrian/german characters?
I got my MacBook Pro from the United States but now I got back to Austria. my problem is that I don't have specific characters listed on my English (US) keyboard, such as Ä,Ü, and Ö ( and the lowercase ones too) to do my work here.
I only need those letters since all the other characters (except the Euro-symbol) are on it. Instead of writing Ä, I have to write Ae, i.e. instead of Äpfel, I can only write Aepfel, which looks very ugly. But right now I havent found a way yet to write those letters without having to copy it from somewhere else (it also takes too much time).
I thought about something liek shortcuts but that would probably interfere with other shortcuts. But how about a program that automatically changes Ae (or ae or AE) into Ä?
Or is there a way to change the function of the second 'option/alt' button? Because I never really use the second one and I thought that it also should have a job.
Or would an applescript do it? I've never tried to create one or even thought about trying to make one even thought it seems to look pretty easy. I just dont have the time to learn it...
Btw, Ü = ue, and Ö = oe
Thank you for you help!
I only need those letters since all the other characters (except the Euro-symbol) are on it. Instead of writing Ä, I have to write Ae, i.e. instead of Äpfel, I can only write Aepfel, which looks very ugly. But right now I havent found a way yet to write those letters without having to copy it from somewhere else (it also takes too much time).
I thought about something liek shortcuts but that would probably interfere with other shortcuts. But how about a program that automatically changes Ae (or ae or AE) into Ä?
Or is there a way to change the function of the second 'option/alt' button? Because I never really use the second one and I thought that it also should have a job.
Or would an applescript do it? I've never tried to create one or even thought about trying to make one even thought it seems to look pretty easy. I just dont have the time to learn it...
Btw, Ü = ue, and Ö = oe
Thank you for you help!
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.4)
