Alt Code Shortcuts for German Letters with Accents

Most European languages have special characters in addition to standard English alphabets. German language has very few accented letters like Ä, Ö or Ü. Since these accented letters are not part of English keyboard, you need special tools to type these letters. One of the easy ways is to use alt code keyboard shortcuts in Windows and Mac based documents.

Alt Code Shortcuts for German Letter

Basically, the special letters in German are from Latin characters. Unicode offers these letters as part of the Latin-1 Supplement block in the point range from U+0080 to U+00FF. You can convert these Unicode hexadecimal point to decimal and use as a alt code shortcuts. Alternatively, you can also use the hex code directly on Mac.

Here is a complete list of alt code shortcuts for accented German letters.

How to Use These Shortcuts

You can use these shortcuts in different ways as explained below.

Alt + Code for Windows

Press and hold one of the alt keys and type the numbers using the numeric keypad on your keyboard. For example, alt 0214 will produce capital letter O with umlaut like Ö. This method will work on all Windows based documents like Outlook, Word and PowerPoint.

Alt + X Method for Microsoft Word

Enter the hexadecimal code using regular number keys on your keyboard then press alt and x keys to type the accented letter. For example, 00DC alt x will produce capital letter U with umlaut like Ü. However, this method will only on Microsoft Word documents.

Alt or Option Code for Mac

On Mac, you can simply long press to select the accented letters. If that is not convenient for you then use alt or option keys with hexadecimal code to type the special letters. However, you need to change the input method to Unicode Hex Input for using these Unicode letters.

Typing German Letters in HTML, CSS and JS

• On HTML documents, you can directly use the entity names for these letters. Alternatively, use hex or decimal escape entity as shown in the below table (use the codes without spaces, we need to add space so that the browser does not interpret the code into a letter).
• On CSS and JavaScript documents, use escape string in hex code format. For example, \00DF in CSS and \u00DF in JavaScript will produce small letter sharp s like ß.