German keyboard lacks accented "e" characters

Hi everyone,
I just have the question whether I'm the only German user that is missing the possibility of typing é,è or ê since iOS4.something ... somehow, Apple has removed these characters from the standard keyboard layout so I have to switch to French each time I want to invite anyone in a Café :o)

This is a well-know change in iOS 4 which many people don't like. Tell Apple here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

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German keyboard/ characters

I'm a really new mac user! I need to be able to type German accents EASILY and can't figure out how to do this? Reset my keyboard or ... HELP!

Hi, Fortuna1 -
Welcome to Apple's Discussions.
Two assumptions I'll make -
(1) That you are using Mac OS 9 (since that's the forum in which you posted)
(2) That you are after the umlaut characters and the funny double-S
If you currently have the US English Keyboard Layout active, you can do the umlaut by pressing the key-combo Option-u followed by the character you want. Works with capitals, tooExamples -
Option-u plus a types ä
Option-u plus e types ë
Option-u plus i types ï
Option-u plus o types ö
Option-u plus u types ü
Option-u plus y types ÿ
Option-u plus A types Ä
(etc.)
For the ß character, press Option-s. I think this may actually be a capital beta (Greek letter), but it bears a close resemblence to the old German character.
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You can also reset the keyboard to a German keyboard layout. This makes accessing some German and European characters easier, but means having to learn a new pattern for the keys. If you want to try that, make sure that German is checkmarked in the list in the Keyboard control panel. Once more than one language is checkmarked in that control panel, a small flag icon will be added to the main menubar, which represents the keyboard language menu. You can then use that new menu to select the language layout you want activre. You can use the utility Key Caps (usually found in the Apple menu) to see what's where in the new layout.

Using accents/special characters in keyboard WAY TOO SLOW!

I'm often using french, and thus many words have many accents (just a short phrase exemple : l'été passé j'ai dû boire l'amère potion de la déception... A short sentence, 5 accents. Can be worse).
I'm typing pretty fast, and already getting frustrated because the french keyboard doesn't have the ' included, which would save so much time in contractions. (Would probably be added automatically if I could use the corrector, but I can't, cause switching from french to english all the time, I just get stupid jumble all the time).
But the worst of the worst is each time I need to type an accented letter, I lose 2.5 seconds! Because that's how long it takes for the accents options to pop-up after I hold my finger on the letter...
It's completely ridiculous!
Typing a short 3 letter word like "été" takes over 6 seconds!
It makes me so mad!
I almost completely stopped writing my french emails or Facebook updates and such from my iPod Touch and prefer to wait until I'm on my MBP! Is that normal when you have the chance to own the Touch?!
I've contacted Apple about this many months ago, but like any complaint I've had in the past, never heard of them.
Has anyone else have such a delay with the accents/special characters keyboard (popups)?
Is there something I can do?

Simply copy and paste. Just did it and it worked. Perhaps I'm not understanding something. What do you mean by "insert a font."

Missing characters in german keyboard layout

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Hi, I have had that problem a while ago...the other way around. I'm from Germany and was missing German characters on my US keyboard. I wrote about how I solved this here: https://myubuntux.wordpress.com/2012/01 … d-in-xorg/
I'm pretty sure this will help you solve your problem...at least introduce you to the tools I used.

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mario from le locle wrote:
Franklin, you ask me to select the French (Switzerland keyboard) but I have not that keyboard on the list !
Then something is not right with your iOS 5 installation. You should try resetting your device.
Every correct iOS 5 install should have the choices French, French (Canada), French (Switzerland) on the list from which you add keyboards.

German Keyboard (Where are the ä, ö and ü keys???)

It is great that the iPhone offers different keyboards and that the word corrections are adjusted accordingly, BUT where are the special characters such as ä, ö and ü??? I couldn't find them on the German keyboard. Any ideas?? Thanks.

It actually works with c, e, i, l, n, s, y and z keys too. The objective appears to be to give easy access to all language-specific accented characters from any keyboard where those character-variants are not on their selected keyboard's display. It certainly works well and is an 'in-line' way of providing easy-access to the facility without cluttering the display still further with more options that are seldom used by most people in most cases.

Can I buy a Mac Pro in the U.S., with a German keyboard?

can I buy a Mac Pro in the U.S., with a German keyboard?

The Mac Pro Tower is NOT a laptop computer. It weighs 65 lbs, and holds four full-size Hard Drives. It uses a detachable keyboard.
US English
Western Spanish
French
Japanese
... are readily available at the Apple Online Store, in wired and wireless.
For German, you would have to call them and make special arrangements, or pick one up an additional keyboard when you get back home.
This thing won't fit in your suitcase. Are you sure you want to pay to ship it home again? I would be tempted to sell it when you are leaving, and buy a new one at Home.
A laptop would be a better choice. These are also available with the same four choices of languages (in all models) through the online store.
You can make all the German characters and accents with the USEnglish keyboard, but some are two keystrokes.

Where can I buy a Macbook Pro or Macbook Air with german keyboard ?

My daughter will soon go for 1 year to the US. I would like to buy a MB pro or MB air for her. Since she will return after this year to Germany, I am looking for an opportunity to get a model with German keyboard layout. In the online store, only US, french and spanish are available.
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I type German on the US keyboard all the time without having to switch keyboard layouts:
option-u followed by a u o (and other letters, too) gives you ä ü ö ï
option-s gives you ß
option-2 gives you €
You can even to French:
option-` followed by, for example e, gives you è
option-e followed by, for example e, gives you é
option-c gives you ç
option-i followed by e gives you ê
There are [many more such combinations|http://www.usingmac.com/2007/12/12/100-mac-keyboard-shortcuts-for- creating-symbols] that yield other special characters.
You can set up the built-in spell check to automatically detect what language you are writing in and you're set
Personally I find the US keyboard much nicer to work with. I'm sure your daughter will get used to it and your wallet will thank you.
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Can't use special character "option+5" on german keyboard

After upgrading to Lion I have problems to select special characters on a german keyboard. Typing in TextEdit "Option+5" does not display "[".
Nothing happens. I always have to use PopChar to insert the "[" character.
I already checked out all of the preference settings for the keyboard, layouts, international formats, ...
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Thanks for your answer, but I already checked this. I completely disabled all speak recognition.
Not only one key doesn't work, but four in a line "option + 3, +4, +5, +6".

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how is it possible to use a german keyboard with its german shortcuts on premiere pro cc in english language on a mac?
I use all my softwares in english.
But aside adobe I can use or change in other softwares (Avid, FCP7, FCPX) to use german keyboard shortcuts on a german logic keyboard.
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I'd also love to have the answer on this.
It's really bothering. All Training material is in english and I have setup my complete system with all apps in english.
With all the apps shortcuts work just fine, just with Premiere Pro CC it doesn't do it at all .....
Please fix this!
Andre

I would like to know how do I install the brazilian keyboard into macbook air, keyboard with accents (Portuguese Language), I tried so many times how to put into it (Macbook Air). So, thanks for now! I'm waiting for it.

I would like to know how do I install the brazilian keyboard into macbook air, keyboard with accents (Portuguese Language), I tried so many times how to put into it (Macbook Air). So, thanks for now! I'm waiting for it.

After you go to system preferences/keyboard/input sources as suggested by sberman, click on the + button and scroll down to Portuguese and select that. Over at the right you will see the choices Brazilian, Brazilian abnt, Portuguese. You might want to add all three to see which you like best.
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The Brazilian abnt and Portuguese layouts have dead keys for adding accents over at the right edge of the keyboard. But these may not match what is printed on your keys.
You may prefer to stay with the US layout. On that you can get accented letters by just holding down the base letter and selecting what you want from the popup menu that appears. Or you can use the option key shortcuts.
Another option is the layout called US International PC, which has accent deadkeys on ~, ', etc.
Which ever layout you want to use, you must select it in the "flag" menu at the top right of the screen.
To see which key does what for any layout, use the Keyboard Viewer:
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13746

Caret character in numbers (iWork09) not working with german keyboard

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Thanks
I'm glad to get this info because I thaught that it was linked to physical keyboards which it isn't.
Report sent:
*Your tracking number for this issue is Bug ID# 6491581.*
Hello
+In Numbers '09 we are unable to type the caret in this kind of formula =2^3 when we are using a keyboard layout where this key is a dead one.+
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English
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Never mind. Found it in an old post. It is mapped at Shift-Alt-7, really weird.
The post is at:
http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/2003/12/backslash_on_mac_os_x.html

German keyboard lacks accented "e" characters

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