Re: Umlaut
From: David Wright (david_c_wright_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/23/05
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Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:15:08 +0200
John Mullen wrote:
> Perfect Reign wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:38:30 -0600, someone posing as John Mullen
>> pretended that someone gave a rat's ass and spewed out:
>>
>>> conrad wrote:
>>>
>>> If you are using KDE try the following:
>>>
>>> Open Control Center. Click on "Regional and Accessibility" then
>>> "Keyboard Layout" Add the layout that you wish, in this case German. The
>>> rest should speak for itself. I like to use the tasktar switching tool.
>>>
>>> John
>>
>>
>> I wish there was a default way to do this. I have tried the above
>> solution, and it doesn't work. This is because a German keyboard has a
>> diffeent layout than an american one. I forget exactly but a few keys are
>> switched and the s thingy is in the wrong place. Since I'm writing from
>> an american keyboard, just changing the layout doesn't help.
>>
>> I'd love for the functionality to be built in. For example press CTRL +
>> SHIFT + ~ + n to get an ñ or CTRL + SHIFT + : to get a ü. I'm used to
>> doing this in Windows for many years and it works since I occasionally
>> write in German and my wife occasionaly writes in Spanish.
>>
>
>
> I found this link:
>
> http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~tphillip/GermanKeyboardLayout.html
>
> I have been using German for years and have since got used to it. The
> only thing that I still find annoying is that the letters Y and Z are
> switched. Viel Spaß!
For my first 6 months in Germany I was still using an English keyboard, but
the PC was set to a German layout, so the keys didn't always produce what
they said, but after a couple of hours I was used to that. Since then I've
slowly upgraded all of the keyboards on my machines apart from my old
English laptop.
Using the old laptop with its English keyboard, and it is set to English
layout under Linux, swapping between it and my German machines seems very
natural now.
This was under Windows and Linux, I've been doing this for years, I
occassionaly needed french characters as well and would just set the
keyboard to azerty to get them, then switch back to English when finished.
Dave
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