ITES Handbook 10th

Version 0.2 April

2015
German Character Set

Printed and Handwritten

Version 2.0

This document helps you to identify the different styles of German

(printed and handwritten) scripts

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Table of Content
1 German Scripts Uppercase Printed .................................................................. 3
2 German Scripts Lowercase Printed................................................................... 6
3 German Scripts Uppercase Handwritten ........................................................... 9
4 German Scripts lowercase Handwritten.......................................................... 12
5 German Scripts Diacritics Printed ................................................................... 15
6 German Scripts Ligatures Printed ................................................................... 17
7 Sample Text .......................................................................................................... 18
8 Alt key combination for diacritics ......................................................................... 19

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Character Set

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1 German Scripts Uppercase Printed

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Note:
German has all 26 letters used in the English alphabet, plus a few additional letters: umlauted
vowels, , and and an Eszett (). Eszett () looks like a Roman script capital B with a tail
on top. It is never found at the beginning of a word.

Some of the Gothic letters are similar to Roman style print, but others are quite different. These
include the letters:

There is often no distinction made between the capital I and the capital J

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2 German Scripts Lowercase Printed

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3 German Scripts Uppercase Handwritten

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4 German Scripts lowercase Handwritten

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5 German Scripts Diacritics Printed

Accent A E I O U Other

Acute

Double Acute

Grave

Double Grave

Breve

Inverted
Breve

Cedilla

Caron

Circumflex

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Umlaut

Ring

Dot

Ogonek

Tilde

Macron

Slash

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6 German Scripts Ligatures Printed

ae AE

oe

ch ck

sz (or)
ss st sch

ft ffi ft ff

ll

tz

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7 Sample Text - Printed

elflike

selfless

Alte Schwabacher

Kopf hoch !

Fhrende Zeitung fr

Vom weftlichen Kriegsfchauplatz

Juli

Die Insel

So starb Johannes Hus vor 500

Die Tugenden welche Jesus Christus anderen anempfahl, hat Er auch ausgebt. Diejenigen, welche
die Philosophen angepriesen haben, hat nicht einer von ihnen zur Tat gemacht. Nap. Roussel.

Blffer vom Donnersberg unsere Krieger

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Sample Text - Handwritten

Clara

Karl

Dietrich

Johann Bloch, ill. der Anna Maria Bloch, Bauerstochter von Auggenthal, geb. 17 III. 1840 in
Rhrnbach, soll sich im Jahr 1893 oder 1894 mit Maria Knaus Inwohnerstochter von Zwlfhuser,
Gdn. manth, in Khbach verehelicht haben.

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8 Alt key combination for diacritics

All Diacritics should be keyed using the following Alt Key combinations

Grave Umlaut
ALT+0192 ALT+0224 ALT+0196 ALT+0228
ALT+0200 ALT+0232 ALT+0203 ALT+0235
ALT+0204 ALT+0236 ALT+0207 ALT+0239
ALT+0210 ALT+0242 ALT+0214 ALT+0246
ALT+0217 ALT+0249 ALT+0220 ALT+0252
Acute ALT+0159 ALT+0255
ALT+0193 ALT+0225 Other Characters
ALT+0201 ALT+0233 ALT+0197 ALT+0142
ALT+0205 ALT+0237 ALT+0229 ALT+0158
ALT+0211 ALT+0243 ALT+0222 ALT+0216
ALT+0218 ALT+0250 ALT+0254 ALT+0248
ALT+0221 ALT+0253 ALT+0199 ALT+0140
Circumflex ALT+0231 ALT+0156
ALT+0194 ALT+0226 ALT+0138 ALT+0198
ALT+0202 ALT+0234 ALT+0154 ALT+0230
ALT+0206 ALT+0238
ALT+0212 ALT+0244
ALT+0219 ALT+0251
Tilde
ALT+0195 ALT+0227
ALT+0209 ALT+0241
ALT+0213 ALT+0245

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Revision History
v.no Change Description Prepared By Date Reviewed By Date

0.1 Initial version Mohana Priya V 15-Oct-13 Lipensa L 17-Oct-13

1.0 First approved version Released version Mohana Priya V 17-Oct-13
1.1 Updated German handwritten scripts, ligatures, diacritics and samples Saradha SM 08-Apr-15
2.0 Second approved version Released version Saradha SM 10-Apr-15

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