umlaut.

Dear smart computer people of SG:

how do you make an umlaut? and how do you make an upside down ! (like for Spanish)

my friend needs to know so she can talk to dirty to me on AIM in another language.

thanks.

come on guys. can't keep her waiting.

doppelgänger

Cut and paste one of the following:

ö
ü
ä

there's gotta be some sort of technique.

Me too! I don't know the ASCII codes...

Special characters are easy on Macs...

An accent is Option-E then the letter: é
An umlaut is Option-U then the letter: ü

And the other vowels do other things. Windows is harder you have to write the ASCII code after pressing the Alt key, unless you get a utility to switch to a foreign keyboard.

what do you call that character that is a "c" with a squiggly thing on the bottom, seen in french?

The thing below the c is a cedilla...

When I want to post or e-mail something with special characters, I type the whole thing in Word, and then copy and paste.

In Word, you just do control - apostrophe or control (that thing under the tilde - the "accent grave") or control - colon -- and then the letter.

ü

Not too pratctical in AIM though...

ü= alt+0252
ä= alt+0228
ë= alt+0235

?

I've gotten points taken off of German papers in the past because of a lack of computer umlauts. Ich bin sehr traurig gewesen.

Here are some instructions for typing accents in Windows.

link

This works, but it's not something you want to leave your keyboard set to all the time, because it turns your quote keys into accent-making-keys. So if you want to type actual quotation marks, you have to also hit the space bar of all things, and that's annoying.

YES, now I can do it!!!

é ü ç ê

[Edited on Mar 25, 2004 by DiamondGeezer]

if your on a pc.....go to acessories...system tools....character map...

shows the quickies for all different sorts of things like that

Mötley Crüe

Or you could just listen to lots and lots of Mötörhead like myself.

One more reason why I love having a mac: ü ¡ ç
SO EASY.

ö = Alt+148

Assgasms, Assgasms, Assgasms

And the easy way is to use the proper key mapping for the language, in Windows I usually have the french canadian, english and one of the german keymaps installed, then alt-shift to switch between them. Of course, I use a Mac at home so...

or have a keyboard set up in that langauge.