Swedish accent letters

Typing Swedish on your keyboard

On the Swedish keyboard å, ä and ö are three ordinary keys to the right of P and L. they are separate letters of the alphabet, not umlauts, and they need no modifier. The acute dead key next to them gives é for loanwords like idé and kafé. The whole demand here comes from English keyboards and from layouts that silently switch, so the Alt codes (134/132/148) and Mac shortcuts below are the fix.

What the accents are called in Swedish

ring above

ring (å)

umlaut / diaeresis

prickar

acute accent

akut accent

Quotation marks: ””’’