Umlauts and other accented letters

[Strider]

Hi everyone. Here is how I have been able to make an umlaut and other accented letters. Several years back an older gentlemen that I worked with showed me how to do this. I still use it here at work. Just hold down on the alt key and enter the number following the examples below.

�¤ 132
Ã?? 142
�« 137
�¶ 148
Ã?? 153
�¯ 139
�¼ 129
Ã?? 154
�¡ 160
�© 130
Ã?Â* 161
�³ 162
�º 163
�± 164
Ã?? 165
�¿ 152
�£ 156

If there is anything else that you folks might like let me know and I will see if I have it or if I can find the answer for you.

Sid.

[Thor]

Hey Sid, just seeing if this really works! L�¼ger! HEY!!! THANKS! Thor

[Strider]

Glad it worked for you Thor. It is one of those tricks that I picked up to dazzle the engineers. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
Sid.

[Orv Reichert]

Why won't it work on mine?

Window2000Pro

Orv [img]frown.gif[/img]

[Hugh]

doesn't wurk on windows xp either [img]mad.gif[/img]

[Thor]

I am running Windows 98. It DID WORK WITH THE NUMBER PAD, but not with the numbers over the letters! Pretty cool! L�¼ger! L�¼ger! You can also cut and paste these. First one was typed, second was copied and pasted! Thor

[Herb]

Doesn't work on Millenium Edition either, I just get little "bongs" when I try to enter the numbers. OK, got it, you have to Ã??se the number pad on the right side rather than the keyboard numbers. <img src="graemlins/c.gif" border="0" alt="[ouch]" />

[Strider]

Herb is right. You have to use the number pad on the keyboard. <img src="graemlins/c.gif" border="0" alt="[ouch]" /> I guess I failed to mention that. I apologize for not including that. I am using windows 2000 and it works fine. I should not be a problem using windows. Well you guys have a good weekend. I will check back on Monday and see if everything worked out ok with this. Let me know if you are still having problems.
Sid.

[Hugh]

Well it w�¼rked �¼sing the n�¼mbers pad, b�¼t the "n�¼mber lock" m�¼st be on. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Roadkill]

Please. You have no idea of the distress your little dots are causing those of us who read them
as a pronunication. Its a cerebral copulator to read them where they don't belong, especially in English words. Reminds me of the home videos of the dog/cat who can say something that you really can understand. Absolutely is unnerving.

RK

[unspellable]

The two little dots over a letter are called a dieresis, not an umlaut. They have various functions in different languages. In German they form (with the letter) an umlaut. (What ever that is.) In English they are one of the diacritical marks, meaning two vowels or sounds are seperated.

My own name is No�«l, an English masculine name, also a masculine name in French. It is pronounced Noe-ell and does not rhyme with bowel. My Yahoo handle is unspellable because the Yahoo software and many e-mail handlers (Not to mention other software) choke up on the dieresis so in a fit of pique I used unspellable. This well before I found the Luger forum.

I appologize for the pedantics, but you guys heppened to land on my pet gripe.

diaeresis (American English dieresis)

Pl. diaereses /-si[long]z/. Two dots placed over the second of two vowels (as in na�¯ve, Chlo�«, Elo�¯se), and occasionally in other circumstances (e.g. Bront�«), to indicate that it is sounded separately. Since the sign is often not on modern keyboards it is often omitted in printed work; and it has also usually been dropped from such familiar words as a�«rate, co�¶perate (now aerate, cooperate). Occasional examples still occur, e.g. I re�«ntered the chestnut tunnel-New Yorker,
1987.


The New Fowler's Modern English Usage, �© Oxford University Press 1968

[Thor]

RK, oh no!!! Wait until Hugh's cusin BUBBA mixes dem with da local dieAlect speach! That will REALLY DRIVE YOU NUTS!!! Hugh will be teaching dem 'dillos to talk German f�¼r sure! lol We need John to invent a 'dillo GRAEMLIN that runs.....then gets shot.....then flips over on it's back.....then kicks it's feet skyward hard three times.....then the feet collapse and Xs go over the eyes, NOW THAT,,,,,,,is a GRAEMLIN on Lone STAR BEER!!! HEY HUGH!! Working on your ARTY today, now that is a long range dillo killer of the first order! <img src="graemlins/roflmao.gif" border="0" alt="[hiha]" /> <img src="graemlins/beerchug.gif" border="0" alt="[cheers]" />

[Roadkill]

Thanks, Unspellable. I wondered why but as I've gotten older I tend to just accept things without as many questions. Thor, recommend you leave the guns alone tonight. And please don't get Hugh fired up.

RK

[Thor]

RK, that would be hard NOT to do, he stays that way, if fact I called him today, so there!! Vielen dank!!

[wterrell]

Unspellable,

Thank you for the information. Learning things such as that makes this a day worth having lived!
<img src="graemlins/beerchug.gif" border="0" alt="[cheers]" />

Sidney,

I now have more use for my keyboard. Thanks.
<img src="graemlins/yltype.gif" border="0" alt="[typing]" />