# Ï don't want an i with an umlaut!" says Daniel

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 7, 2005, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-an-i-with-an-umlaut-says-daniel/334504 "2005-12-07T15:03:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-want-an-i-with-an-umlaut-says-daniel/334504/21 "2006-01-12T19:13:16Z")

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> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#):
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> Waitaminute…it seems to be working now. I just realized that you can change the language for each window that’s open, and that doesn’t change the default language for new windows. By changing from “US-International” to “English (US)” it may have fixed the problem.
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> Daniel

Did you find this setting in the “Regional and Language Options” of your Control Panel? The language you select there is called the “input language” and it specifies a particular “code page” which maps your keystrokes and keystoke combinations to the characters displayed on the screen. English-US is code page 437. Greek is 737.

More than you’ll ever wanna know is here:  
[http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/codepages.html](http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/codepages.html)

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