How To Type German Using Qwerty Keyboard?
My little one is learning German and needs to type German on the computer.
anyone knows any tips and tricks to type German in Linux? :D |
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Hi,
the most comfortable way would obviously be to get a German keyboard. ;o) But the difference is not that big - at least when writing normal text. Except for the Y-Z swap the difference is only in special characters. So you might get along with just loading German keycaps. (Possibly using a felt tip to mark the differing characters on the front of the keys). Another (emergency-)solution would be to not use umlauts at all but their equivalents: Ö as Oe, ß as ss etc. But spelling checkers (and teachers) are probably not going to like it. |
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Hi rupertwh, when you mentioned - loading German keycaps, do you mean loading a particular software? - not use umlauts at all but their equivalents, do you mean type Ö as Oe ? that would certainly looks odd :) |
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But the only use today of the spelling 'ae', 'oe', 'ue' really is when technical limitations don't allow for (now) proper umlauts. |
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-- Prasanta |
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Remembered that I've seen (maybe default activate in Knoppix) an app sitting at the systray that allows user to select the country (hopefully also the keyboard) to use. Unfortunately, can't recall the applications name and unable to find it in Debian and openSUSE that my family is now using. Please advise the name of the application if anyone can recall, else I'll just have to download one distro at a time and hunt for this application :D |
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in KDE control center -> Regional and Accessibility -> Keyboard Layout -> Enable Keyboard Layout -> Add German Layout this will enable an applet in the system tray. Using this image as a reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:KB_Germany.svg typing of the special characters is not an issue. THANKS all for the help. |
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