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Well, here's a story about how to configure and use one that I wrote last year: https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/07/foss_fest_foreign_letter_key_guide/ http
by lproven 3y ago
Well, here's a story about how to configure and use one that I wrote last year:
https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/07/foss_fest_foreign_letter_key_guide/ https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/07/foss_fest_foreign_let...
It's dead easy.
You type compose, then 2 (or very occasionally 3) characters which, put together, make the letter you want.
Compose, a, ` gives à.
Compose, A, ` gives À.
And so on. Y,=, ¥. c,/,¢
You can usually guess the combination you need.
- tgflynn 3y agoYeah, that might work with a default keyboard layout but it doesn't work with a polytonic Greek layout. How would you type a lowercase alpha with an acute accent and a macron that way ?
- lproven 3y agoI don't speak or write Greek, so I don't really have any insight at all into this. (I can just about, very poorly, read the alphabet, that's all.) So I can only guess: Let's assume we have a Greek layout. And that that has keys from alpha to omega, and a RightAlt or something, and keys that have some useful resemblance to acute, grave, circumflex, rough, smooth, etc. Compose, type an alpha, type an apostrophe? As an example, I sometimes type in Czech. č is comp, c, < š is comp, s, < Others... î is comp, i, ^ ï is comp, i, " ç is comp, c, comma All that's needed is a vague visual resemblance to the desired diacritic.