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Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> writes:

> I prefer typing 'ae' instead of 'ä' not only because of being nice
> to non-german speaking configurations but because of my english
> keyboard layout.

You might like one of the German input methods -- e.g. german-prefix
or german-postfix (select them with `C-x RET C-\').

With the first method input is translated like:

     "a -> ä, "o -> ö  etc.

with the second like:

     ae -> ä,  oe -> ö  etc.