<p>The Chicago app says that no special formatting like bolding or italicizing is allowed, but do you think umlauts (the two little dots over letters like a, o, and u) would be? There’s a German word with an umlaut in it in my essay that’s rather important, but if necessary I could always change it to an ae instead of an a with an umlaut.</p>
<p>Edit: I meant umLauts in the title.</p>
<p>I haven’t looked at the U of C app, but my gut feeling would be that if the program lets you save the umlauts, you should. That’s not really formatting, a missing umlaut changes the meaning of the word, so it’s really just a special letter.</p>
<p>What cj_svu6 said.</p>
<p>An e can easily be substituted for an umlaut. Such as: König to Koenig or zärtlich to zaertlich. It’s just like putting in ss for an etset (ß). It’s computer-type, and I don’t see anything particularly wrong with it. I ran into the same problem, only with those pesky French accents for which there are no substitutes.</p>
<p>you can check the box and send them the essay by mail</p>