typing foreign characters

[Lars Brehmer]

Hi List (especially foreign character typers!)

I've been following this thread because I had similar problems and 
questions last year.  Here is the weirdest thing I found out back then, 
and to my knowledge on one has posted this interesting litlte fact yet, 
at least I never saw it:

In Rev (and it seems in standalones as well) you can't get an umlaut 
even with the option-u extra stroke when using the US English keyboard 
on a Mac.  You can however, using the German keyboard, either hit the [ 
  ;  and  '  keys which give you ü, ö and ä respectively, but you can 
also get the umlauts with the option-u-u,o,a method when using the 
German keyboard (!?!)  I always found this quite strange, but it gets 
even stranger!  For those who need these diacriticals and have to 
switch to the German keyboard but are driven crazy by the different 
layout (once you get used to the y and z keys there are still all the 
punctuation marks and shift-number differences) you just have to use 
the British English keyboard, which has the same layout as the US, 
except the option-u strokes WILL produce the umlauts in both Rev and 
standalones!  Also the õ (option-n-o) which I also need for Estonian.  
I never understood why only the US keyboard is the only one that 
doesn't do this, but using the British keyboard is certainly an easy 
solution!

(note to Klaus - I finally DID actually help someone else :-D)

Cheers,

Lars