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German letters

4 years ago

Hi there :)

I write in German and tried to insert my story into CYS, but all the German letters (ä, ö, ü, ß) are replaced by other letters, numbers etc. Is it possible to change the system language, font or something like that to display non-English letters?

Thanks for your help!

Mizal

German letters

4 years ago

Hold still, I will travel to the land of Discordia and summon the dragon.

BradinDvorak

German letters

4 years ago

First things first, turn off the Rich Text Editor. It’s in your profile options. It might look simpler without it, but you actually get a lot more freedom this way.

You’ll be able to enter these characters with what’re known as HTML entities (e.g. ä for ä). Here is the list of the entities you would need:

Ä ä ← &Auml; &auml;
Ö ö ← &Ouml; &ouml;
Ü ü ← &Uuml; &uuml;
ß ← &szlig;

Edit: This will not work in the story title field, though. Looks like you have already, but you will have to make do with ae, oe, ue, and ss there.