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Dear all,
Yes, a German keyboard driver (Tastaturbelegung) is the answer and it does work with Vista too. It's a nuisance at first if you've learned to touch-type in English. If you're like me and haven't, you'll want to put sticky labels on the keys to show where the new signs are and the old ones have moved too, (or get a friend in Germany to send you a keyboard) but you soon get used to it. The advantage is that, with the exception of the pound sign, the range of signs available directly from the German system is wider, and you don't have to switch to anything else to type English.
Viel Spaß beim Experimentieren!
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Alan Deighton
-----Original Message-----
From: JISCmail German Studies List on behalf of Dr J M Catling (LIT)
Sent: Sat 31.10.2009 14:54
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Subject: Re: Hans Hahn, Umlautlos
Dear Hans
thanks for the tip. Can you not switch languages on the control panel so
it has a German keyboard? this is what I have always done on Windows XP,
NT and so on, though I haven't yet managed to instal it on Vista. >
good luck!
Jo
Dear Colleagues,
> I am the victim of the new Windows 7 system. Unfortunately, it seems to be
> so Anglo-American, that one cannot get a short cut for German Umlauts or
> the 'scharfe s'. Can anyone hep? If not, I would like to warn you not to
> get this new system, it seems unhelpful to people wishing to write in
> German.
> Hans Hahn
>