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We don't have Czech letters on our keyboards. That is pretty much the entire reason - it's hard to impossible to type these characters on a standard US QWERTY k
by Asooka 4y ago
We don't have Czech letters on our keyboards. That is pretty much the entire reason - it's hard to impossible to type these characters on a standard US QWERTY keyboard, so we don't. Plus the DOS systems will probably balk at them as well.
- nine_k 4y agoYou don't need Czech letters on your keyboard; I don't have them on mine. That's the beauty of diacritics: they are compositional. I use compose key to type various letters like é, č, ö, ø, æ, ï, etc on my plain American ANSI keyboard. OTOH to type fast, you might want a more ergonomic input mechanism. (But I won't dive into the rabbit hole of really ergonomic keyboard layouts; if you're curious, search for KMonad, and think about e.g. the convenience of having modifier keys right in the home row.)
- the_gipsy 4y agoDo you use kmonad to customize those mappings? I happen to write in Spanish and German, for which the us-international layout is just perfect. But I did customize my xkb for some other keys, and I used to use kmonad before.
- nine_k 4y agoIf I wrote a ton of German, or Swedish, or Czech, I'd likley create a layer dedicated to these letters with diacritics, just to access them in 2 keypresses rather than in 3.
- gsich 4y agoSo? Keyboard layouts are not hardcoded. The dead key concept also works there. No need to strike for DOS compatibility anymore.