{"id":8901,"date":"2019-02-18T10:05:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T10:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=8901"},"modified":"2019-02-19T08:25:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T08:25:58","slug":"easy-umlauts-on-a-linux-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=8901","title":{"rendered":"Easy umlauts on a Linux keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some weeks ago, I blogged about the keyboard shortcut for guillemets – French quotation marks – on a Linux keyboard (posts passim<\/a>).<\/p>\n

My attention in this post is on the German umlaut, also known as diaresis<\/a> (or in French as a trema. Ed.<\/em>) the two dots placed over a vowel modifying its pronunciation.<\/p>\n

Once again, one could always use the character map to insert a specific vowel with an umlaut.<\/p>\n

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KCharselect with an upper case A umlaut selected<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, the keyboard shortcut is much quicker.<\/p>\n

To produce the letter a with an umlaut – “ä<\/em>“, follow these steps.<\/p>\n

Depress AltGr<\/em> key and the left-hand square bracket “[<\/em>” followed by “a<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

The AltGr<\/em> and left-hand bracket symbol plus the vowel of your choice will give you that character plus an umlaut.<\/p>\n

For the upper case version, I find the easiest way to avoid knotting your fingers is to turn on the CapsLock<\/em> key before the AltGr<\/em> key and the left-hand square bracket “[<\/em>” plus vowel sequence. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some weeks ago, I blogged about the keyboard shortcut for guillemets – French quotation marks – on a Linux keyboard (posts passim). My attention in this post is on the German umlaut, also known as diaresis (or in French as a trema. Ed.) the two dots placed over a vowel modifying its pronunciation. Once again, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,9],"tags":[22,12,23],"class_list":["post-8901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-linux-and-os-matters","category-open-source-software","category-tech","tag-language","tag-open-source","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8901"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8915,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901\/revisions\/8915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}