On my Apple:<br><br>press option-key and s -> ß<br> option-key and u followed by the letter you wish to "umlaut", i.e.<br> option-key and u then a -> ä<br> option-key and u then shift-a -> Ä<br>
etc.<br><br>Experiment with option-key and letters, you will be surprised what there is in your keyboard...<br><br>As ever,<br>Rembrandt<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 5:05 AM, Niels Provos <<a href="mailto:provos@citi.umich.edu" target="_blank">provos@citi.umich.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Yves Codet <<a href="mailto:ycodet@club-internet.fr" target="_blank">ycodet@club-internet.fr</a>> wrote:<br>
> Being no expert I couldn't say where your problem comes from but it<br>
<br>
</div>Yes, you are right. Removing the input encoding worked nicely.<br>
<div><br>
> In Unicode you can write ß directly.<br>
<br>
</div>Only if you have a keyboard with an ß character. On a US keyboard, I<br>
will have to live with "s.<br>
<div><br>
> Maybe the following would be even better, since François created a<br>
> replacement of Babel, Polyglossia which especially meant for XeTeX:<br>
<br>
</div>I tried Polyglossia, but unfortunately, it no longer recognizes my umlauts:<br>
<br>
"a is converted into ''a instead of ä<br>
<br>
etc. However, babel seems to work fine, even if some of the<br>
hyphenations look incorrect.<br>
<br>
Thank you for your help,<br>
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Niels.<br>
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