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    German Umlaut

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by diver110, Jun 14, 2007.

  1. diver110

    diver110 Notebook Evangelist

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    I do some German language work. I like to stick with the US keyboard, as that is what I am used to. On the German keyboard the y and z are reversed. If you, for example, use the German version of Word, it gives you the German keyboard (of course, the physical keyboard is still US). It at least used to be that by installing the "international keyboard" you could create an umlaut by typing shift quote and then the letter. It worked in all apps and works on my four year old Dell. Does anyone know if this is still available on IBMs in either XP or Vista? Thanks.
     
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    Paranoia Notebook Consultant

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    As far as I know, this is purely an operating system issue and not a hardware related one. In Vista you can go into the regional settings and change the keyboard just as you could in XP, regardless of what kind of computer you are using.
     
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