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When I learned German on high school, it was allowed to replace umlaut. For example, instead of über, you could say ueber. Ie. effectively replacing the umlaut
by Fnoord 6y ago
When I learned German on high school, it was allowed to replace umlaut. For example, instead of über, you could say ueber. Ie. effectively replacing the umlaut with its vanilla/plain vowel variant plus an e. You can do the same with ß by replacing it with two s (mind to write it like). Tho I'm not sure its correct German in all German-speaking regions I found Germans would understand me. It being useful as my keyboard layout wasn't qwertz or equiv.
- mafuy 6y agoI'm German, can confirm the replacements you mention is universally understood here. In case you ever want to type German, have a look at using the US-Int layout on your US keyboard. It adds keyboard combinations like Alt+S = ß, "+U = Ü etc. It is a little cumbersome, but probably good enough for occasional foreign languages.
- Fnoord 6y agoI like how SwiftKey and macOS deal with it. Long press key gives options for accents.