William Henney <when...@gmail.com> writes: > Why don't you just write the umlauts directly: ü > > Either use the facilities of your OS, or use one of the German input > methods of Emacs. For the latter, see the docs for "C-\". For the > former, it all depends on your OS and your keyboard.
Exactly. We're in the third millennium of the calendar, folks; we have Unicode. The way to get a character into a text document is to put it in literally. -- \ “It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no | `\ ground whatever for supposing it true.” —Bertrand Russell, _The | _o__) Value of Scepticism_, 1928 | Ben Finney
