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> Why not use US ANSI layout in the OS to match the keyboard? Because it doesn't contain characters required to type Estonian words. You can use dead keys and
by tom_mellior 9y ago
> Why not use US ANSI layout in the OS to match the keyboard? Because it doesn't contain characters required to type Estonian words.
You can use dead keys and character combinations to get characters the keyboard doesn't support directly. This is what's done in France, where the standard AZERTY keyboard doesn't have keys for every French letter. For some letters it also only has a lowercase version, not uppercase. (Accents are optional on uppercase letters in French because... who knows why.) There is a dedicated key for the letter ù though, which only appears in a single word of the French language.
- louhike 9y ago> Accents are optional on uppercase letters Unlike what some french believe, they are not supposed to be optional: http://www.academie-francaise.fr/questions-de-langue#5_strong-em-accentuation-des-majuscules-em-strong http://www.academie-francaise.fr/questions-de-langue#5_stron...
- wazoox 9y agoWith both MacOS and Linux, you can access all accented uppercase letters simply by using the Caps-Lock key. For some unfathomable reason, Windows makes it much more difficult.
- harperlee 9y ago> Accents are optional on uppercase letters In spanish it used to be the same. Old printing technologies were not so flexible as a screen, so for large imprints it made more sense to have all letters be the same size whilst not wasting space above the letters.