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Maybe the author didn't knew how to change the keyboard layout.

• odiroot 12y ago
  Or you can just use Compose Key. It's more practical than switching layouts all the time. Also AFAIR on Mac OS X you can just long-press for alternative letters.
  • bellerocky 12y ago
    On Mac OS X I type Option-u and then the vowel for umlauts. Long press will just spam the letter you pressed.
    • eropple 12y ago
      In the majority of text boxes, it won't spam; OS X doesn't do key press repeats in most text modes. Long-pressing a vowel (or a number of other keys) brings up a popup that lets you select a variant with the number keys.
      • bellerocky 12y ago
        What inputs does this work in? I've tried a bunch.
        • jasomill 12y ago
          Accented character menus on long-press are on by default in 10.7 and later, at least for the default U.S. English settings. Two caveats: (1) Long-press menus appear in most places, but not everywhere. For example, they don't appear in Terminal windows. (2) While enabled by default, long-press menus can be disabled by setting the "ApplePressAndHoldEnabled" default to false. To make sure they're not disabled globally, enter defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true at a shell prompt (they could still potentially be disabled at the individual application defaults level, via mandatory managed defaults, etc.).