>I think thisone would me cost some time too. I consider it over the edge.
>Ah, FYI Neukölln, if you miss ö simple typ oe. (As we have done on the times of CP/M) This rule works for ä and ü as well.

I wonder why now - I remember that even in the eighties anything with a keyboard had to have the umlaut characters and the scharfes ess. My Atari STf, bought in München in 1988, has them. And all four special characters you have are a part of the Western character set which is installed on 99% of machines in the world. The ae for ä, oe for ö etc was a stopgap measure in the late sixties and seventies, when there were many computers incapable of holding 8 bit character sets, so it was understandable then. Why now, when that battle was won once already?