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I mostly write in English (plus Clojure, shell, and C#), but often also in Spanish, French and Finnish. I've found that a standard QWERTY/US layout with a Compo
by tincholio 6y ago
I mostly write in English (plus Clojure, shell, and C#), but often also in Spanish, French and Finnish. I've found that a standard QWERTY/US layout with a Compose key is the best option. It gives you a decent layout for coding and shell related characters, and all diacritics (and plenty more) are a 3 keystroke chain away (with no chording). Even when writing French, which requires a lot of accents, I find it more fluid than needing to switch to (the completely awful) AZERTY layout.
- aloisdg 6y agoI like to use the qwerty US international. Far better than the Azerty layout which is indeed completely awful.
- TazeTSchnitzel 6y agoI like the default Mac US/International English/British layouts (they're almost the same as each other). Mac users are graced by an OS that actually uses the Option (Alt) key on every letter to do something useful. You can type all manner of diacritics and such without using a non-standard layout! It works great for English, German, Swedish, Spanish, French, and perhaps more. I only wish there was good support for it on Linux and Windows. I will eventually contribute a patch to xkb to fix its version of this.
- tincholio 6y agoI'm no longer using Macs for work, but while the option key does enable useful stuff, you can do even better with Karabiner elements and a Compose key there as well :)
- ginko 6y agoYeah US layout + Compose key is also my setup.
- etripe 6y agoWhich azerty? French or Belgian? I find the Belgian one is actually very well suited to programming, with easy access to all common symbols. I can't speak to the French one, but from a quick search it does look insupportable.
- tincholio 6y agoI've only used the French one (for about 5 years, while living in France... it was awful)