diff --git a/projects/angular-keyboard/package.json b/projects/angular-keyboard/package.json
index 46577b7..e372430 100644
--- a/projects/angular-keyboard/package.json
+++ b/projects/angular-keyboard/package.json
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 {
   "name": "@taskbase/angular-keyboard",
-  "version": "0.0.10"
-}
+  "version": "0.0.11"
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/projects/angular-keyboard/src/lib/fake-input/fake-input.component.ts b/projects/angular-keyboard/src/lib/fake-input/fake-input.component.ts
index a0848e7..6ca7c0d 100755
--- a/projects/angular-keyboard/src/lib/fake-input/fake-input.component.ts
+++ b/projects/angular-keyboard/src/lib/fake-input/fake-input.component.ts
@@ -89,7 +89,12 @@ export class FakeInputComponent implements OnInit, OnDestroy {
   ngOnInit() {
     this.registerInputField();
     this.chars = this.initialText
-      .split('').map(char => {
+      // We want the text to use canonical composition of special symbols like
+      // german umlaute and avoid treating the combining diaeresis character
+      // separately.
+      .normalize("NFKC")
+      .split('')
+      .map(char => {
         return {
           char
         };