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Using Umlauts

Asked by barchen36

Hello, I sometimes use German words that have UMLAUTS in them, How can I 'bring them up' in an e-mail?

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#1

Hallo
Ich weiss nicht ob ich dirch korrekt verstehe: Die Sache mit den Umlauten..
Deine Tastatur ist aber so eingestellt, dass sie die Umlaute wiedergeben
kann, ja?
Zu den Fonts. Du kannst unter Synaptic 'msttcorefonts' herunterladen. Das
beinhaltet viele der in MS Word bekannten Fonts. Und wer weiss, vielleicht
löst sich so auch gleich das Umlaut-Problem.

Oh oh this is english question right?

also Have you installed the ttf-freefont package? I think they are supposed
to be the replacement for commercial fonts in Ubuntu and the they
support an extraordinary wide range of characters, including non-Latin
characters and non-European languages. If you don't like the kerning
there's also the ttf-bitstream-vera package providing high-quality
fonts.

Then you click on view -> Charecter encoding and choose unicode (if you are on mozilla) works out for me..

Gruss

Bhavani Shankar.

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barchen36 (barchen36) said : 		#2

Stimmt, There are a few words: ie Spter / Spaeter and other words.
Will try it,
Thank you.

Bhavani Shankar <email address hidden> wrote: Your question #26093 on gucharmap in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gucharmap/+question/26093

    Status: Open => Answered

Bhavani Shankar proposed the following answer:
Hallo
Ich weiss nicht ob ich dirch korrekt verstehe: Die Sache mit den Umlauten..
Deine Tastatur ist aber so eingestellt, dass sie die Umlaute wiedergeben
kann, ja?
Zu den Fonts. Du kannst unter Synaptic 'msttcorefonts' herunterladen. Das
beinhaltet viele der in MS Word bekannten Fonts. Und wer weiss, vielleicht
löst sich so auch gleich das Umlaut-Problem.

Oh oh this is english question right?

also Have you installed the ttf-freefont package? I think they are supposed
to be the replacement for commercial fonts in Ubuntu and the they
support an extraordinary wide range of characters, including non-Latin
characters and non-European languages. If you don't like the kerning
there's also the ttf-bitstream-vera package providing high-quality
fonts.

Then you click on view -> Charecter encoding and choose unicode (if you
are on mozilla) works out for me..

Gruss

Bhavani Shankar.

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Best Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#3

Ok try out and keep us informed...

P.S. If my answer has solved your question then please click " This solved my problem " button on the RHS bottom of my answer OR if you are using an email interface then click on the link below "If this solves your problem" or something similar..

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barchen36 (barchen36) said : 		#4

Thanks Bhavani Shankar, that solved my question.

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Goetz (goetzds) said : 		#5

On a related question: to get Umlaute & other characters, in Windows, I type [ALT] 129 to get a "ü" for example. This works in all the windows programs I tried including Open Office and Thunderbird. In Ubuntu this does not work. To use the character insert feature is rather cumbersone. Is there a quicker way to do so?

I tried creating a macro, but have not been able to set up a quick way to trigger it, e.g.such as using [Control] u. And the macro would not be an option in Thunderbird, I gather.

I apologize if I'm asking questions too elementary for this forum, but I'm just starting out in this. If I should not be asking here, perhaps you can point me to a beginners' forum.

Götz