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

• Lehmuusa@nord.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Interesting!

  I have wondered about that!

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