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Producing Umlaute in Windows Applications

In Microsoft Word, go to Insert | Symbols | More Symbols.

If you find yourself using Umlaute often, you may switch your keyboard functions so as to produce, e.g., an "ä" by pressing "quotation mark + a". To set this up do the following:

Control Panel  |  Regional and Language Options  |  Languages  |  Details  |  Add United States  - International

We recommend that you make US - International the default input language and also show the language bar on the desktop.
  

Umlaute in ASCII (higher part of ISO 8859-1)

    
ä
Alt 0228
Option U A ä
 
ö
Alt 0246
Option U O ö
 
ü
Alt 0252
Option U U ü
 
Ä
Alt 0196
Option U Shift A Ä
 
Ö
Alt 0214

Option U Shift A

Ö
 
Ü
Alt 0220
Option U Shift U Ü
 
ß
Alt 0223
Option U S ß

Dictionaries

  • dict.leo.org. LEO, run by the Technical University of Munich. See also the handy plug-in LION under Recommended Free Software below.
  • credoreference.com. Collins German Dictionaries, Davidson Library.
  • dwds.de. Das Digitale Wörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache des 20. Jh. (Akademie der Wissenschaften). Contains corpora, German definitions, and word information.

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Language

  • www3.davidson.edu/cms/x1618.xml. Davidson College Language Resource Center
  • www.erlangerliste.de. Erlanger Liste. Collection of links to dictionaries, encyclopedias, databases, etc.
  • www.gfds.de. Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache. Annual listings of the "Wörter des Jahres" and the most popular German first names.

Film and Television

  • www.dw-world.de. Deutsche Welle. German television in the US.
  • www.filmportal.de. German Film portal.
  • www.imdb.com. The Internet Movie Database. Feel free to type in the German title of a film to gather pertinent information about it.

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