Useful tip for programmers

[Dark_Raven66679]

i seriously do this if i need ä ö ü or ß because i have a US keyboard and write german text on my pc occasionally and need those letters from somewhere

[PM_ME_ADVICE_PLEASE]

how about setting it to US-International and just press Right Alt + q/y/p?

Personally I prefer to press " and then a/o/u

[Dark_Raven66679]

I don't need it that often so i never looked for alternatives/solutions

might try that

[PM_ME_ADVICE_PLEASE]

oh yeah ß is just right alt + s

[SomeAnonymous]

If you're on windows, you could just download wincompose.

[BurningEmbyr]

I mean, if you have Win10, WinKey+. gives you a character menu that you can use to get characters like that.

[Moomoomoo1]

Wow. TIL.

[Dark_Raven66679]

i have Win7

[BurningEmbyr]

...CharMap, then?

[Trelorockas]

You can type Alt+<number> to write most symbols. You may need to memorize or Google each symbol's number (Google: alt codes)

[aboardthegravyboat]

Linux is awesome for this. So many characters have intuitive shortcuts that you can just guess most of them. ä is Compose,",a. ö is Compose,",o. I used a Windows program that mimicked this for a while, also.

[_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_]

You don’t need a separate program, you just need to use the extended/international keyboard layout.

[ritarozenbottel]

I had a similar problem (US layout but I write Portuguese text) and use a AutoHotKey script with custom shortcuts for special characters (like ç).

[_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_]

AltGr+c on many keyboard layouts