Help with german umlauts on USA XP install (ö ä ß etc.)

[flexy]

i am emberrassed because i consider myself a hardcore geek, but i have NOT figured that one out yet..and i tried a LOT !

I have an US Windows XP SP2 install on my machine which was all fine when i lived in the states.

I am in Germany now and i am plagued by Umlauts, liek "ä", "ö", "ü" etc..needless to say i already set all to my new locale, eg system-locale etc...and as you can see i dont have a problem for example here typing and using umlauts.

But many applications (some of where i KNOW they should support umlauts) do not display or accept any umlauts in their application windows.

Eg. when i do keyword research, i use Keyword Elite or "Internet Business Promoter" etc...i switch to a german UI....but i cant look for many German keywords since i just cant type any words with umlauts.

cheers,

flexy

 

[lxskllr]

You can use the character map to drag and drop the letters you want, or memorize the keyboard sequence to input it directly. The only one I know off the top of my head is

ë= alt numpad 0235


Edit:

The easy way to get the character map is to open up the run dialog and type charmap

 

[Treripica]

flexy, do you know if many of the indexers automagically add the 'de-umlauted' version of a keyword when they index, such as 'Die Bücher' would get indexed with 'Die Bücher' and 'Die Buecher'? I haven't looked at indexers in about 8 years, so I have no idea what they're doing these days.

 

[ultra laser]

?ö = alt + 148
ü = alt + 129
ß = alt + 225
ä = alt + 0228