View Full Version : [ubuntu] How do get an umlaut ?
Orange Kingdom
April 16th, 2011, 04:02 PM
Hi,
I have some songs with umlaut characters in it but they show as little questionmarks in Nautilus and in the terminal.
How do i get the correct characters with umlauts?
I am using the US int. keyboard layout.
Enigmapond
April 16th, 2011, 04:10 PM
Without changing the keyboard layout, just right-click on the top or bottom panel/Add to Panel/Character Palette. This gives you choices of all different characters. Hope this helps.
Cheers!
Orange Kingdom
April 16th, 2011, 04:58 PM
thnx, but this does not give me a listing with the umlauts in Nautilus.
for example : Die Sch�ne M�llerin D795 - Wohin.flac
must be an o- umlaut and an u- umlaut.
Or do i have to change all this characters manually?
Enigmapond
April 16th, 2011, 05:04 PM
Right this way you would have to go character by character. If you need to make it more permanent, you would need to add German to the System Language Support and Keyboard Layout.
Krytarik
April 16th, 2011, 05:42 PM
I don't have German language support installed, and the few umlauts I have are displayed correctly. But I had those issue some years ago. I believe the clue was/is to mount the concerning partition/s with the option "utf8", similar to this:
/dev/disk/by-uuid/107C-26F4 /media/Data vfat user,utf8,umask=007,uid=1000,gid=46 0 0https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/maverick/en/man8/mount.8.html
Greetings.
Orange Kingdom
April 16th, 2011, 05:53 PM
I have in /etc/default/locale already LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
Is that the same?
Krytarik
April 16th, 2011, 06:01 PM
I have in /etc/default/locale already LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
Is that the same?
Nope, please read the guide. It's about filesystem mount options, not language support.
sonoftherighthand
November 11th, 2011, 03:30 PM
Check out the compose key. Go to System->Preferences->Keyboard, go to the Layouts tab, click Options…, and expand Compose key position (at least, this is what it is in Meerkat).
After defining the compose key, you can use the handy chart over here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key) to make all sorts of symbols.
For umlauts, though, press compose + " followed by the desired vowel.
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