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luas
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Re: Typing 'foreign' characters e.g. Umlauts
« Reply #30 on: Sunday 13 September 09 23:14 UTC (UK) »
If you only need the occasional Umlaut, using the ASCII codes is the easiest way, as the previous poster said.  Just make sure that the Num Lock light is on, and that you use the numerical keypad to the right of the keyboard.  Alt plus 129 gives you ü, for example, as in Grün.  If your ancestor lived in England, he must have had problems with officials rendering his name correctly in documents.  I'm surprised he wasn't tempted to anglicise it to Green, which is what "grün" means.  He may have sometimes used the version Gruen, to compensate for the English bureaucrats' inability to cope with the Umlaut.
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Re: Typing 'foreign' characters e.g. Umlauts
« Reply #31 on: Monday 14 September 09 14:48 UTC (UK) »
It was my grandfather and he used Green all the time he was here. I have seen his name on a German document recently, and spelt as Grün. Look! I got it! It worked this time because I used the right side of my keyboard with the NumLock lit up! So then, all is well now, problem solved. Thanks to the advice on here. Cheers everyone! Cool
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Salford. Stretford. Reddish. Barton upon Irwell.
Thomas Phillips. William Phillips Smith. James Phillips. Sarah Ann Phillips, nee Smith.
Congleton, Cheshire.
George Green. Frederick Wardle.
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