Dear colleagues,
Viele Wege führen nach Rom. There is a keyboard in Windows (XP, Vista,
7), which lets you use a querty keyboard and you can still write umlauts
and accents.
Start > Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Keyboards and
Languages > Change keyboards > English (whereever you happen to be)
Hit the plus sign to expand the entry if you can't see the keyboard and
then select United States - International. Click OK twice.
10 clicks done once - works all the time. ;-)
This keyboard gets you an umlaut if you press the double quotation mark
and then the letter, e.g. " - a = ä and " - A = Ä. Hold down the left
Alt key and press s - that gives you an Sz. Accents or the cedilla are
simply done by pressing the appropriate single quotation mark first.
Oh, and holding down the left-hand Alt-key and pressing % gives you the
Euro €. If you really want a quotation mark, you need to press the space
bar.
The whole keyboard is described at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306560, in case you want to find out
about ñ and ê. ;-)
Best wishes
Mat
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Mat Schulze, PhD
Director of the Waterloo Centre for German Studies
Associate Professor of German
Dept of Germanic and Slavic Studies
University of Waterloo
http://germanicandslavic.uwaterloo.ca/~mschulze
http://www.wcgs.ca
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