How to Type Umlauts?
As you may have noticed, there are various ways to write umlauts. Alas, there is no generally accepted way to do this in soc.culture.german. Periodically, therefore, you will observe hard-fought battles on this topic in this group. Here are the two methods most often used: • common Version ae oe ue Ae Oe Ue ss or sz • TeX Version “a “o “u “A “O “U “s Please! if you have a German-style keyboard with umlauts, and if you’re using it to post something in soc.culture.german, don’t use the umlauts. They probably won’t get displayed correctly on terminals in, say, North America. Call’em poor user’s of ancient equipment or victims of lousy 7-bit administration — many people simply don’t get the vital 8th bit…it’s a fact, ey!
