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What about EurKey? https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/ https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/ It's preinstalled on Linux, and available for macOS and Windows as

What about EurKey? https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/ https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/ It's preinstalled on Linux, and available for macOS and Windows as well. I feel a keyboard based on the US layout which far too often is considered a standard (better for coding and buggy software and games), with dead keys and diacritics is a fantastic idea. I have migrated all my machines to use it instead of the custom layouts or the US one that's very restrictive when you need to write accents.

abrowne 5y ago
> EurKey? https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/ https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/ > It's preinstalled on Linux Note that at least on Ubuntu/Debian, the included version is older and a bit different. Not unusable or anything, but not the same as on the website.
ReleaseCandidat 5y ago
> What about EurKey? https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/ https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/ Not much 'euro', eastern europe is missing as a whole. E.g. polish Ł, czech ř, slovak ô, ... Either use dead keys for all diacritics or somehow add them all to the third and forth layer.
- 1_player 5y ago
  It does in fact include the polish Ł, czech ř, slovak ô, check the Layout page and the shift and Altgr tabs, they are made using the diacritic dead keys
- lopis 5y ago
  I don't get it. Is Portugal alone in having separate keys for accents? I have a key for ^ and a key for "o". If I type ^ and then o, I get ô. If I want to type a literal ^ i press ^ twice. Same for `,´,~,¨ (which is not ideal for programming, but I'm used to it). I'm missing the inverted ^ because it doesn't exist in Portuguese but you get the point. The only letter than has a dedicated key is ç. Wouldn't this solve much of the problems of these keyboard layouts by reusing the same letters?
  - ReleaseCandidat 5y ago
    Same in most other language layouts. But I'm talking about the euro-layout, there are keys for ý, ä, ü, ö, é, .... All of these are 'western' special characters, no eastern europe (slavic language letters) or greek letters. So users of _these_ languages, need to use dead keys or some other method (I don't know to get greek letters with this layout) for at least some of their 'special' glyphs that are not, by chance, also used in another language (for slovak and czech that's for example ä, ú, á, é, ý and í). https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/pics/layout.png https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/pics/layout.png
JeremyTheo 5y ago
I wanted to post the same. I am German and I am using it for my daily tasks. It combines the easy to program US layout with easy access to German Umlauts Ä, Ö, Ü, ß. Highly recommended. No idea though for any other languages other than German.
- fowlie 5y ago
  It works very well for Norwegian too.
  - eirki 5y ago
    Does it not lack a proper æ?
    - fowlie 5y ago
      Sorry for late response, but no. RightAlt+q gives æ, RightAlt+w gives å and RightAlt+l gives ø.
nomdep 5y ago
Isn’t the same as US-International?

abrowne 5y ago

> EurKey? https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/ https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/ > It's preinstalled on Linux Note that at least on Ubuntu/Debian, the included version is older and a bit different. Not unusable or anything, but not the same as on the website.

ReleaseCandidat 5y ago

> What about EurKey? https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/ https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/ Not much 'euro', eastern europe is missing as a whole. E.g. polish Ł, czech ř, slovak ô, ... Either use dead keys for all diacritics or somehow add them all to the third and forth layer.

1_player 5y ago
It does in fact include the polish Ł, czech ř, slovak ô, check the Layout page and the shift and Altgr tabs, they are made using the diacritic dead keys
lopis 5y ago
I don't get it. Is Portugal alone in having separate keys for accents? I have a key for ^ and a key for "o". If I type ^ and then o, I get ô. If I want to type a literal ^ i press ^ twice. Same for `,´,~,¨ (which is not ideal for programming, but I'm used to it). I'm missing the inverted ^ because it doesn't exist in Portuguese but you get the point. The only letter than has a dedicated key is ç. Wouldn't this solve much of the problems of these keyboard layouts by reusing the same letters?
- ReleaseCandidat 5y ago
  Same in most other language layouts. But I'm talking about the euro-layout, there are keys for ý, ä, ü, ö, é, .... All of these are 'western' special characters, no eastern europe (slavic language letters) or greek letters. So users of _these_ languages, need to use dead keys or some other method (I don't know to get greek letters with this layout) for at least some of their 'special' glyphs that are not, by chance, also used in another language (for slovak and czech that's for example ä, ú, á, é, ý and í). https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/pics/layout.png https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/pics/layout.png

JeremyTheo 5y ago

I wanted to post the same. I am German and I am using it for my daily tasks. It combines the easy to program US layout with easy access to German Umlauts Ä, Ö, Ü, ß. Highly recommended. No idea though for any other languages other than German.

fowlie 5y ago
It works very well for Norwegian too.
- eirki 5y ago
  Does it not lack a proper æ?
  - fowlie 5y ago
    Sorry for late response, but no. RightAlt+q gives æ, RightAlt+w gives å and RightAlt+l gives ø.

nomdep 5y ago

Isn’t the same as US-International?