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1. #GERMAN LAYOUT OF APPLE MAC KEYBOARD MAC OS X#
2. #GERMAN LAYOUT OF APPLE MAC KEYBOARD CODE#
3. #GERMAN LAYOUT OF APPLE MAC KEYBOARD FREE#

#GERMAN LAYOUT OF APPLE MAC KEYBOARD CODE#

Then open the Character Viewer under the little keyboard icon in the menu bar, select the Latin'' character category, then right-click on the character you want to copy and paste its Unicode character code and other info into your text editor. To find the above hexadecimal Unicode character codes, open the Keyboard System Preference, click on the 'Keyboard tab, and make sure Show Keyboard & Character Viewers in menu bar is checked. Log out and back after activating it if it doesn't work right away. You won't get Nils' cool icon that way, and we have tweaked this layout some more to make it work better (see version history below), but otherwise it works the same. With Umlauts via Option Key.keylayout" into the folder specified above and select it as described. Paste the resulting page into an empty TextEdit window, select "Make Plain Text" from the Format menu, and save the resulting file as "U.S. :: as long as you do not change or remove the copyright notices or this license.

#GERMAN LAYOUT OF APPLE MAC KEYBOARD FREE#

License: You are free to modify and/or redistribute this product, Jan Borchers, RWTH Aachen University, Germany With Umlauts via Option Key", check "autodefine all unassigned keystrokes", leave the other options at their defaults, and paste the following code into their online form: :: U.S. To recreate the above mapping, use the name "U.S. Check out their web site if you have any problems with this file. I created this keyboard layout using the nice web interface at.

#GERMAN LAYOUT OF APPLE MAC KEYBOARD MAC OS X#

It has been used successfully under all macOS versions from Mac OS X 10.2 until macOS Mojave (10.14) so far. The Option key is also labeled "alt" on most keyboards. (In 2017, an optional uppercase ẞ was introduced officially, but I haven't gotten around to changing this layout file yet.) Shift-option-S or Caps-option-S will create "SS", in accordance with typographical standards. This also works as expected for uppercase umlauts (Shift-option-A, Shift-option-O, Shift-option-U), and with Caps Lock enabled. Now you can use the following keyboard shortcuts for German special characters: In that menu, select "Hide Input Source Name" to save some space in the menu bar. Log out and back in once after first installing it to make it work in all applications (including the Finder, Spotlight, etc.).Īfter logging back in, in your menu bar, select the US/German flag from the new flag menu. "US" may reappear later, but everything works nevertheless.Īlso check the Show Input menu in menu bar option at the bottom. Under macOS 12 (Monterey), you may need to delete the "ABC" and "US" Keyboard options in that list to make this work.

With Umlauts via Option Key keyboard layout. In the overlay, select Others, then the U.S.

Launch System Preferences under the Apple menu (close it first if it was open already), go to the Keyboard Preferences pane, and select the Input Sources tab.Ĭlick on the + in the lower left corner. You'll need administrator rights on your Mac for this, which you have automatically if you're the only user.ĭon't use (your home directory)/Library/Keyboard Layouts with Snow Leopard (10.6) or later, otherwise you may not be able to enter any administration passwords anymore. You may have to create this folder if it doesn't exist already. Unzip it, and put the file Roman.bundle into the following folder:

It makes entering German umlauts (äöüÄÖÜ) and the sharp es (ß) a breeze. If you are using a Mac with a US keyboard layout, but need to type lots of German text, then you will want to use this layout.