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April 4, 2020
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Using German Umlaute ä ö ü in Acrobat Text Fields

  • April 4, 2020
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Hi,

I'm getting crazy ... I run Acrobat pro DC on Mac OS Catalina and find no way to enter German Umlaute ä, ö or ü to my pdf document text fields. 
is it only me or do I make something wrong?

 

thank you for any hint

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JR Boulay
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Community Expert
April 4, 2020

Be sure that the font used contains these characters.

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Participant
April 4, 2020

I was using "Helvetica Neue", the issue is that I don't get the box allowing to select an ä instead of a (the long press on a just inserted lots of a)

 

But thank you - you pointed me to a workaround to temporarily use a German keyboard in keyboard settings (my MacBook has a physical American layout)

Legend
April 4, 2020

https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/03/16/how-to-type-accented-letters-in-macos-three-different-ways It notes that long press only works in certain apps, and gives other ways.