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I'm trying to find a way to map German umlaut keys (Ä,ä,Ö,ö,Ü,ü).

A simple shortcut like this won't work:

inoremap <c-ö> <Esc>

Nothing happens when I hit ctrl+ö.

Does anyone know a solution to this?

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    Perhaps this answer helps? stackoverflow.com/a/21389290/5260921
    – cbaumhardt
    Feb 23, 2016 at 2:15
  • It helps.. Though the answers make me sad.. :'-|
    – Rotareti
    Feb 23, 2016 at 2:31
  • I understand, I have been there too :( I settled to use QWERTY instead of QWERTZ layout, which has many benefits for programming...
    – cbaumhardt
    Feb 23, 2016 at 2:56
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    faq1 and faq2 Feb 23, 2016 at 10:55
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    @le0m, inside Vim I use digraphs (in insert mode press Ctrl + K, then e.g. o:), and inside regular Linux environment for writing mails or so I use a keyboard shortcut (GNOME compose key)
    – cbaumhardt
    Feb 23, 2016 at 12:46

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Vim (though I cannot attest if this is true for every build and version) actually only handles valid ASCII control codes.

This is why when you press Ctrl + M, Vim actually gets a special "control code" (0D in this case), while there is no such code for Ctrl + ,, so it cannot be mapped.

There is an interesting discussion on that very subject here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_dev/Ym6D-kWIsyo

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