Hah, yes, I’ve had lots of problems with keyboard layouts. I have a hobby requiring lots of unusual characters (e.g. ɛɔþʔəɬɑʒ), and I haven’t yet found a keyboa

Hah, yes, I’ve had lots of problems with keyboard layouts. I have a hobby requiring lots of unusual characters (e.g. ɛɔþʔəɬɑʒ), and I haven’t yet found a keyboard layout which allowed me to type all these characters with absolutely no problems. I started off using the Canadian Multilingual Standard [0], which worked well enough, but uses Ctrl rather than AltGr as a modifier, with all the conflicts that entails. Also, some frequent characters such as []/ were hard to get to, and I never did manage to retrain my muscle memory to get used to their positioning. I eventually switched to the Finnish Multilingual layout [1], which fixed the Ctrl problem but not my muscle memory. I think I used Keyman [2] for a while, but I don’t remember it working very well. At the moment, I’m using my own custom keyboard layout [3], which generally seems to work very well… except in Microsoft applications, which seem to inconsistently not recognise dead keys with AltGr. (Excel is a particular offender, which is particularly horrible since I often need to type characters like λση⁻¹ in it.) Not that they’re alone: out of the major GUI libraries I tested recently, only Qt and Electron worked correctly. Clearly, this is an area in need of improvement. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSA_keyboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSA_keyboard [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key#Finnish_multilingual https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key#Finnish_multilingual [2] https://keyman.com/ https://keyman.com/ [3] https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey