alt shortcut for German umlaut, alt-o only makes an "ø" not "ö"

MarkH101 wrote:

Is it possible to set the alt-u shortcut so it only produces German umlauts instead of Scandinavian special characters?

Are you using the US keyboard layout? Some ways to get your umlauts:

You could hold down the key for the base letter and then select the umlaut version from the popup menu that appears.

You could create keyboard shortcuts to do that in system prefs/keyboard/shortcuts.

You could switch to the US International PC layout where you make umlaut by typing " followed by the base letter.

You could create a custom keyboard layout using the apps Ukelele or Karabiner.

Or you could use the standard Mac shortcut for umlaut, which is option u followed by the base character.

Jep, I dont have a SmartKeyboard for testing. But I'm used to type my german umlauts on an international keyboard on my Mac. So if this works as you say on the SmartKeyboard with iPad as well, I don't see the trouble everybody has with Apple just selling an international Keyboard with the iPad.

Thanks for clearing this up for me!

sweh wrote:

I don't see the trouble everybody has with Apple just selling an international Keyboard with the iPad.

But aren't most German writers used to just touch typing the ö key to make that letter? I can see why they would not really welcome the need to hit option, then u, then o instead...

With the UK English keyboard it's alt-u followed by o (or a).

Does anyone know if this also works with Apples SmartKeyboard attached to an iPad Pro?

sweh wrote:

Does anyone know if this also works with Apples SmartKeyboard attached to an iPad Pro?

I take it you don't have a SmartKeyboard to test? Seems to work on mine.