German signs ü or ä o in Big Sur

Just keep pressed u or a letters and you will be prompted for choosing your desire Germanor other languages signs

Hope that helps

Martin

In addition to the press-and-hold approach, each of the accents has a corresponding 'hidden' option key which can be faster to access.

These work by typing the relevant character for the accent, followed by the character to apply.

For example, umlaut is achieved via option-u, so you can type:

option-u followed by u to get ü

option-u followed by o gives you: ö

Other accents:

option-e: ´

option-`: `

option-i: ˆ

option-k: ˚

option-n: ˜

plus probably some others I'm forgetting.

Press and hold the key on the keyboard.

Then press the number key for corresponding accent mark:

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marleen214 wrote:

It woorks with the u but not with the o in Big Sur!

I get always the Danish or Swedish øøøøø, but I want the 2 dots over the öBy holding the letter till the alternative appeared worked withCatalina, but not w Big Sur, instead the letters repert endlessly

Please tell us what keyboard you have listed in system preferences > keyboard > input sources.

When you do Option U, let go, then O, do you really get ø?

If you do not get the popup menu at all when you hold down a key, you may need to try the following:

open Terminal and type

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true

and then restart.