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.
#German letter keypad layout mac#
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.
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