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01-20-2002, 02:34 PM
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ö,ä,ü (a question for native english people)
In my language we have the letters ö,ä,and ü
I know they dont exist in english .
SO I wonderd if they are visible for "english" Pcs.
What do you see?
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01-20-2002, 02:46 PM
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Originally posted by freakyLA:
ö,ä,and ü
'o' with an umlaut, 'a' with an umlaut and 'u' with an umlaut
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01-20-2002, 02:57 PM
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so you just see what I typed Thank you!
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01-20-2002, 03:05 PM
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How interesting. Of course they can see it, a lot of people already asked me how I do those umlauts ä ö ü or ß ..they are just fixed on our keyboard.

Hard to explain is the pronouncing of them...
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01-20-2002, 04:29 PM
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I know that the b thing is pronounced as "ss". Well thats how you pronounce it in german.

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I can explain their pronunciation. However, I might not get it right. I've only studied Deutsch a year and a bit, so forgive my incorrectness.

O with an umlaut is pronounced 'er' and 'h' at the same time.

U with an umlaut is pronounced 'ur' with a bit of 'oo' at the same time.

I've never actually encountered A umlaut.
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01-20-2002, 05:21 PM
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We see them, but they're not on our keyboards. We have to get them from Character Map, thusly: ä ö ü...
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01-20-2002, 06:38 PM
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Originally posted by Max the Mug:
O with an umlaut is pronounced 'er' and 'h' at the same time.

U with an umlaut is pronounced 'ur' with a bit of 'oo' at the same time.
Your explanation look a little bit complex to me.
Just pronounce the Ä as your usual A (it's the same pronunciation)

We pronounce the Ü as "ue", and the Ö as "oe", we used to write "Hoecker" and not "Höcker" some years ago (as an example)
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This is what I found in a english dictionary It's how you pronounce them:

ã as in Fate
ä as in Far
å as in Fall
a as in Fat
ee as in Me
è as in Her
e as in met
ë as in air
ê as in The
î as in Pine
i as in Pin
õ as in note
ö as in move
o as in not
oi as in boy
ou as in pound
û as in tube
ü as in bull
u as in tub
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01-20-2002, 11:10 PM
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Hey, I found this on the internet on the other day while trying to figger out how my French Program works.

Character Right ALT and Character Right ALT and

HOLD
ALT AND
PRESS

* 0224 À 0192
á 0225 Á 0193
â 0226 Â 0194
ã 0227 Ã 0195
ä 0228 Ä 0196
å 0229 Å 0197
æ 0230 Æ 0198
ç 0231 Ç 0199
è 0232 È 0200
é 0233 É 0201
ê 0234 Ê 0202
ë 0235 Ë 0203
ì 0236 Ì 0204
* 0237 Í 0205
î 0238 Î 0206
ï 0239 Ï 0207
ð 0240 Ð 0208
ñ 0241 Ñ 0209
ò 0242 Ò 0210
ó 0243 Ó 0211
ô 0244 Ô 0212
õ 0245 Õ 0213
ö 0246 Ö 0214
ø 0248 Ø 0216
ù 0249 Ù 0217
ú 0250 Ú 0218
û 0251 Û 0219
ü 0252 Ü 0220
ý 0253 Ý 0221
þ 0254 Þ 0222
ÿ 0255 Ÿ 0159

œ 0156 Œ 0140
š 0154 * 0138
¡ 0161 ¿ 0191
ƒ 0131 µ 0181

¢ 0162 £ 0163
¤ 0164 ¥ 0165

÷ 0247 × 0215

™ 0153 © 0169
® 0174 § 0167


I just thought that was kinda cool.
Here's the site:
http://home.netscape.com/eng/intl/accentinput.html

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01-21-2002, 06:51 PM
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We've got the letters å ä and ö. And in Finnish they're pronounced like this..

å as in all
ä as in bat (not like in far.. that's an aa)
ö as in pleasure (not like in move.. that's uu)
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01-21-2002, 11:46 PM
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oh yeah,I love doing that, passes the time.

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µ: 56294

there are others, but I don't remember them.
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