AndroidThis entry is rather for German readers, but maybe someone of you finds it…god knows why…helpful as well.

The droid sadly has no umlaut-keys. There are 2 alternative ways to type these in using the keyboard.

method 1 – press a,o,u,s for a while

If you press the key corresponding to its umlaut longer than 1 second, you will see this menu:

As you can see it contains a lot of funny characters.
Either press the one of your choice on the screen or navigate to it using the 5-way d-pad and finally press on its middle button.

There is however a second way to achieve this a little faster

method 2: Shift,Alt und then U

Press either Shift or ALT, then to one of them you didn’t press. The textmarker changes after pressing ‘u’ into two dots:

If you press a,o or u the corresponding umlaut will appear. Writing ‘ß’ is even easier. Just press Shift, Alt, then ‘s’

I doubt that this will work on Droid’s. It would be nice if anyone could confirm this.

I’m likely to build an app soon making the whole process a bit easier because umlauts are needed fairly often in the German language.