I am currently trying to type german letters on my MB. I have fingered out the the Esset ß is option + s, however I can no figure out the umlauted letters. Any thoughts?
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
alt-u you'll see the umlaut. Then type the vowel.
You might want to have the german keyboar.
System Preferences > Language and Text > Input Sources
Select German and you will notice a flag up in the menu bar
Click that flag and select german.
If you want to see the keyboard, click the flag and select "Show Keyboard Viewer"
System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard tab; tick "show keyboard and character viewers in menu bar"
For most purposes there's no need to use character viewer or change input source. All the standard diacritical marks and common symbols can be accessed directly from the standard keyboard. ü is produced by pressing alt (option) + U, release them and type U. Similarly é is alt+e, followed by e.
If you open Keyboard Viewer and press the alt (option) key, the location of the marks will be revealed. Note that five of them are highlighted in orange; these are the ones which can be used with multiple letters (acute, umlaut, gràve, circumflex and tilde)
The keyboard viewer helps a lot.
How do I type German symbols?
