Typing umlauts on an English language keyboard
by RedCoupe on Jun.30, 2011, under Web design / development
I’ve had reason to write a title in German that contains umlauts and apart from copying and pasting, I couldnt find a way to do this via my keyboard. By the way I’m using Windows XP.
I know I can use the “Character Map” application under Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>
I found the ü symbol and it said the keystroke was Alt+0252. Well I tried this using the number keys along the top of my keyboard and it didn’t work. So I ended up just selecting what I needed and copying it etc. Since then I found out that if I took numlock off and used that number keypad it works fine.
Aparently on the Mac if you press Alt+u and then typing the following letter; a, u, or o. When the letter is pressed it will display the unlauts over the top as they should be.
Here’s a table of ALT codes for letters with accents:
| Uppercase | Lowercase | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alt Codes | Symbol | Description | Alt Codes | Symbol | Description |
| Alt 0192 | À | A grave | Alt 0224 | à | a grave |
| Alt 0193 | Á | A acute | Alt 0225 | á | a acute |
| Alt 0194 | Â | A circumflex | Alt 0226 | â | a circumflex |
| Alt 0195 | Ã | A tilde | Alt 0227 | ã | a tilde |
| Alt 0196 | Ä | A umlaut | Alt 0228 | ä | a umlaut |
| Alt 0199 | Ç | C cedilla | Alt 0231 | ç | c cedilla |
| Alt 0200 | È | E grave | Alt 0232 | è | e grave |
| Alt 0201 | É | E acute | Alt 0233 | é | e acute |
| Alt 0202 | Ê | E circumflex | Alt 0234 | ê | e circumflex |
| Alt 0203 | Ë | E umlaut | Alt 0235 | ë | e umlaut |
| Alt 0204 | Ì | I grave | Alt 0236 | ì | i grave |
| Alt 0205 | Í | I acute | Alt 0237 | í | i acute |
| Alt 0206 | Î | I circumflex | Alt 0238 | î | i circumflex |
| Alt 0207 | Ï | I umlaut | Alt 0239 | ï | i umlaut |
| Alt 165 | Ñ | N tilde | Alt 164 | ñ | n tilde |
| Alt 0210 | Ò | O grave | Alt 0242 | ò | o grave |
| Alt 0211 | Ó | O acute | Alt 0243 | ó | o acute |
| Alt 0212 | Ô | O circumflex | Alt 0244 | ô | o circumflex |
| Alt 0213 | Õ | O tilde | Alt 0245 | õ | o tilde |
| Alt 0214 | Ö | O umlaut | Alt 0246 | ö | o umlaut |
| Alt 0138 | Š | S caron | Alt 0154 | š | s caron |
| Alt 0218 | Ú | U acute | Alt 0249 | ù | u grave |
| Alt 0219 | Û | U circumflex | Alt 0250 | ú | u acute |
| Alt 0220 | Ü | U umlaut | Alt 0251 | û | u circumflex |
| Alt 0217 | Ù | U grave | Alt 0252 | ü | u umlaut |
| Alt 0221 | Ý | Y acute | Alt 0253 | ý | y acute |
| Alt 0159 | Ÿ | Y umlaut | Alt 0255 | ÿ | y umlaut |
| Alt 0142 | Ž | Z caron | Alt 0158 | ž | z caron |