On Feb 25, 2009, at 21:07, Adi Sieker wrote:
On 25.02.2009, at 14:19, Hans-Jörg Bibiko wrote:
On 25.02.2009, at 13:54, Adi Sieker wrote:
On 25.02.2009, at 12:38, Hans-Jörg Bibiko wrote:
By myself, I'm German, I'm using an US-keyboard due to these conflicts and to learn how to type ü or ß is VERY easy. In other words if you use an US/GB keyboard instead make the life (on a Mac) much easier.
I found out how to type a ß but how do you type the rest öäüÖÄÜ?
OPT+u for the diaeresis ¨ and then type aeiuoyAEIUOY etc.
Neat, I've been mulling this over. I still have some english-keyboard muscle memory. I started with an english layout for 5 years. So switching shouldn't be to hard. The main problem I have is that I work a lot on my customers computers, so I'd have to switch back and forth between english and german layout. Carrying an english keyboard is also not always an option, currently I work on thin clients and I can't even change the layout.
I've worked for years with mostly Danish keyboards, but using them with US layouts most of the time, an then when I needed the Danish æ, ø and å I'd just use the Alt-Shift Windows shortcut to toggle between DK and US layouts. It can get a little confusing at times, but writing code with lots of []{}'s makes 856% more sense on a US layout than a Danish.
You can define a shortcut in Mac OS X to do the same.
Thankfully I only touch Mac and FreeBSD machines in my new job, it is so much nicer. And I just use Option-<something> to type non-ascii characters, it's easy to learn.
Regards Morten Liebach