or anyone else who might have something to say about the issue.
When you want to type an umlauted letter, how do you do it?
Just for laughs, I was playing around with the internationalisation settings on my new computer. (There is now a massive, 27", 2560x1440 monitor sitting on my desk.) The computer has what seems to be called a "US international" keyboard (sounds a bit contradictory, but whatever), but now certain keys are what appear to be called "dead keys". To type an umlauted letter, I type the " character, followed by the a, o, or u. Ä, Ö, Ü, ä, ö, ü. Ë and ë also seem to work, those are used in Russian (although not particularly useful if you don't have access to the rest of the Russian alphabet, all 33 letters). And I can even type naïve.
I can do â, ê, etc., á, à, ñ, and others. If I really want the `, ~, ˆ, ', or ", characters, I just type a space after them (or apparently any other key which isn't a proper certified combination).
Haven't figured out how to do an esszet yet.
I know a German keyboard has the "y" and "z" keys reversed relative to an English one, but I don't remember how the umlauted characters were handled. How do you type them?
I'm thinking about leaving my computers set in German, because before, I always found myself having to use "cut and paste" for all these characters which appear in German, Spanish, French, etc. (usually in names).
Can't figure out how to do that funny "c" with a little squiggle underneath, which is found in French and in Portuguese (and maybe other languages).