Comment on How do I type an apostrophe and use print screen on a European Spanish keyboard?

stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• qualia@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Useless info: The backtick (`), forward tick (´), and apostrophe (') are distinct characters.

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  • BillyClark@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’re a distinct character.

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    • Triumph@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Why i oughta

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    • Lehmuusa@nord.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We are in a community called “no stupid questions”. Your “fuck you for giving someone useful information” is not in the right place in this community. Please copypaste your comment to something under .ml and then remove it from here. Thanks!

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      • BillyClark@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Either you’re making some sort of joke that escapes me or you completely misunderstood my comment.

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      • Limonene@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        “You’re a distinct character” is a compliment, not an insult.

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    T́h́é fóŕẃáŕd́ t́íćḱ íś áćt́úáĺĺý ćáĺĺéd́ áćút́é àǹd̀ t̀h̀è b̀àc̀k̀t̀ìc̀k̀ ìs̀ à g̀r̀àv̀è

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    • toothpaste_sandwich@thebrainbin.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is actually quite a pleasing look. Like text that's overgrown by jungle foliage.

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      • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s Zalgo (putting combining diacritics on every letter) but mild and consistent, plus I used native avcented characters if available to improve rendering consistency

        àèìǹòùẁỳ
        áćéǵíj́ḱĺḿńóṕŕśúẃýź
        

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  • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t have the energy to set one up, or to moderate one, but there should be a community called “GeneralInterestClub” or similar, where interesting but not really super useful info like this would be reposted.

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    • Klear@piefed.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Seems like this would fall under TIL or maybe mildlyInteresting.

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    • qualia@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There’s a few communities in the spectrum you describe: !dullmensclub, (placeholder, will add more)

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• banause@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  YSK: If you set keyboard layouts to thier versiones suffixed with “no dead keys” they don’t do that. Instead the character ist rendered immediately.

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  • Lehmuusa@nord.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And then you don’t have dead keys.

    You press `, then you press e. You get è without needing a specific key for that. The standard Finnish keyboard can do at least the following: ãẽĩõũṏñṽēūȳīōāḡȫǟǖŵêŷûîôâŝĝĥĵẑĉẇėṙṫẏıȯṗȧṡḋḟġḣȷŀżẋċḃṅṁẉẹṛṭỵụịọạṣḍ̣ḥḳḷẓ̣ṿḅṇṃțșȩŗţşḑģḩķļçņẃéŕýúíóṕáśǵj́ḱĺźćǘńḿẁèỳùìòàǜǹm̀ěřťǔǐǒǎšďǧȟǰǩľžčǚň

    If I disable deadkeys, I lose all those characters. Many people on this planet have names that require those, and it’s a bit stupid not having them. Pressing space every now and then is not that much of work :)

    Oh, and indeed: On the Finnish keyboard ~ is a deadkey. You get it by pressing the “^~ key together with AltGr, then pressing Space.

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    • banause@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I did not state anything different, nor did I suggest to switch to a “no dead key layout.” It’s an option that might be a consideration for individuals.

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      • SavinDWhales@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I switched to a US-ANSI layout for work and chose the “no dead key” version on my Mac, as you can either

        • Use the option key as a modifier for the most common version (so option-u is ú, option-y is ü, I think)
        • Long press the key and Mac OS will show you all alternates which you can then choose with a number key (so hold u and press 2 will give you ü as well)

        Dunno if the long press can be replicated on Linux, but I would like to be able to use this system in both worlds…

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  • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Interesting!

    I have wondered about that!

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• daggermoon@piefed.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thank you! I will give it a try. Hitting the key than spacebar works in Firefox and Signal but not much else.

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Than… Do you mean then?

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    • daggermoon@piefed.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t be that person.

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  • Lehmuusa@nord.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Where does it not?!

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