• notarobot@lemmy.zip
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      7 months ago

      Yeah… Accents are a pain.

      They are also a pain to type. Where I live there are 2 keyboard layouts: Spanish and Latin. 99% of people don’t know how to tell them apart which means that their hardware keyboard does not match the setting on the computer, so the label on the keyboard does not match with what is typed. There are also two accents in the keyboard: á, and à which are hard to distinguish one the key starts rubbing off.

      All of this means that a lot of people don’t even know how to type an accent, and a lot of us never remember when we should be typing them anyway

      On top of that this (programming) language, doesn’t even support them. Probably because they cause a lot of encoding issues

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                6 months ago

                On my Linux at home it types nothing but if I press the I key again I get î. I can also do ê, â, ô and û this way.

                US Intl Macintosh layout.

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                    1 day ago

                    Physically I have a blank 100% ANSI layout. My keyboard is the Das Keyboard Ultimate 4:

                    photograph of my Das Keyboard Ultimate in my desk drawer

                    Virtually I have set the “English (Macintosh, ABC, ANSI)” layout on my Linux system:

                    screenshot of a preview of the keyboard layout I set with the name of the layout in the window's title

                    As quick start, I can press AltGr+` to put a ˋ on the next letter I type, AltGr+E for ´, AltGr+U for ¨, AltGr+I for ˆ, and AltGr+N for ˜.

                    Sorry for the late reply, hope this still helps you/someone.