Umlaut/Symbols

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I'm having trouble copy typing and getting a translation for some German text. How do I type the unlaut please?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Footie fan
 
Bristolcity said:
I'm having trouble copy typing and getting a translation for some German text. How do I type the unlaut please?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Footie fan

Do a Google search and find the ASCII Tables.

Print it out and use it as a quick cheat sheet.

If you want

ä then hold down ALT Key and tap 0228 on the key pad
ë then hold down ALT Key and tap 0235 on the key pad

etc etc

U quickly memorise the ones U use a lot.

Frenchy
 
Bristolcity said:
I'm having trouble copy typing and getting a translation for some
German text. How do I type the unlaut please? Any help would be much
appreciated. Footie fan
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Many thanks - that was really helpful and I've solved the problem. I've often wondered what those ASCII numbers meant!
 
Bristolcity said:
I'm having trouble copy typing and getting a translation for some German
text. How do I type the unlaut please?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Footie fan

Look at the Windows system tool "Character Map". You can select characters
from a grid and copy them to the clipboard, it also tells you what
keypresses you need to use to type the character in manually.
 
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