Easy umlauts?

[Kurt Wall]

An unnamed Administration source, Joel Hammer, wrote:
% All I want to do is use umlauts in Ding. The Ding help says that if
% you don't have umlauts on your keyboard to use an "a" for "a umlaut"
% but that doesn't work, at least for me.
% 
% I switched to German in KDE (easy in lindows) but I still don't get any
% umlauts after pressing all the keys.
% 
% So, two questions:
% 1. Is there a quick and easy way to get umlauts off the typical English
% Keyboard?

a umlaut: LAlt+d
e umlaut: LAlt+k
i umlaut: LAlt+o
o umlaut: LAlt+v

Kurt
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