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Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard



on Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 06:28:19PM +0100, Oliver Elphick (olly@lfix.co.uk) wrote:
> Andrew Perrin wrote:
>   >Okay folks - I've been searching with no luck on this, so would appreciate
>   >some advice. I need to type some German texts, which means umlauts over
>   >some o/O, a/A, and u/U characters, and preferably the beta-like character
>   >"doppel-s".  I've tried:
>   >
>   >xmodmap -e "keycode 38 = a A adiaeresis Adiaeresis"
>   >
>   >and it doesn't complain, but it also doesn't do anything. What do people
>   >do for this case?
> 
> Using vim as the editor, I can type Ctrl-k U " or Ctrl-k u "
> 
> :dig shows all currently-defined digraphs.

Vielen Danke!  Das vird nur noch ein bißchen toll sein!

Tschüs!

(Und eine Entschuldigun zu aller Deutscher heir für meine schlechte
deutsche Sprache). 

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