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It will become a non-issue once all keyboards have a "ü" button. :) Which might not actually be that long.
by blagie 4y ago
It will become a non-issue once all keyboards have a "ü" button. :)
Which might not actually be that long.
- Cyph0n 4y agoWhy is everyone focused on the umlaut? If you don’t have the button, use a “u” and move on.
- sk0g 4y agoThe umlauted u is not just a u with some visual flair. "ue" instead would be a more accurate transliteration, but Tuerkiye looks... awkward.
- Cyph0n 4y agoGot it, but I’m saying that using “Turkiye” is better than using “Turkey”.
- blagie 4y agoThings like text search and exact string matching. As minor as it might sound, if 199/200 countries work in your system, capitalism dictates that below a certain business size, the logical thing is often to just ignore the one country and move on. These things have odd cascading effects.
- msm_ 4y agoI have good news for you - text search for non-ascii version of latin characters like ü is a long solved problem. That's because even in non-english speaking countries some people don't bother with diacritics, or they don't have a correct layout at that point, or the text is in source code and has to be ASCII, etc. You can try that now - my browser highlights Türkiye when I search for Turkiye.
- blagie 4y agoGreat! Now do a JOIN in a database with Türkiye in one column and Turkiye in another. It's a problem with well-known solutions. That's not the same as a solved problem. It will be a solved problem when processing a log file in /var/log with Python (or any other tool of choice), it works automatically.
- weberer 4y agoThey are completely different letters. You'd be misspelling it.
- Cyph0n 4y agoContext matters. Is it better to use Turkey then?
- mensetmanusman 4y agoBecause it’s hilarious to try to force the english speaking world to pronounce a name with letters they don’t have.
- msm_ 4y agoThat's not a keyboard issue. Everyone in my country uses a standard US keyboard, we just press AlgGr to type some characters. I even learned some foreign lanugages, so I use a (standard, included by default in every linux distro) keyboard layout that allows me to type most characters used in European languages by using chords - for example, alt-shift-2 + u = ü. So this is not a keyboard (hardware) problem, just a keyboard layout (software) problem.
- LarryMullins 4y ago> standard US keyboard, we just press AlgGr Standard US English keyboards don't have AltGr. But you may mean ctrl+alt on windows or the 'option' button on macs.
- Sunspark 4y agoIt's the right-alt key. If you're using a layout that defines AltGr, the key will just work like that on a US keyboard. Even with just the US keyboard layout, the right-Alt key can still be used with numbers in Windows to type any unicode character.
- d110af5ccf 4y ago> If you're using a layout that defines AltGr Which the parent was pointing out is nonstandard. There is no alt-gr key on a standard US keyboard. You can certainly remap alt-right to alt-gr but that is nonstandard and doing so does not mean that the key exists on the physical keyboard. For example my caps lock key is mapped to ctrl-left. That is nonstandard.
- blagie 4y agoYou're wrong: * Pick any European keymap under Ubuntu, Windows, or Mac with your US keyboard * Hold right-alt and press a key You'll get something like ń or ą. Bonus: Under Ubuntu, you might also have other keys remapped to let you type things like x²≠¼. Bonus hack: Add a Greek keymap, and you can even get to things like Δx = π·y with an alt-space in between.