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[–] 16 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

Similiar to Swiss one but worse.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Ok I'm probably the idiot here, but why not just make one key umlauts, and one for both directions of apostrophe, and then make it a key combo with the standard vowel?

    Like how shift+a = A, it would be umlaut+a = ä, and shift+umlaut+a = Ä?

    How do the real keys (pic) even work?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I'm guessing (not sure) that AltGr, visible in the picture, switches between the two options like Shift would. Shift still switches case.

    I think the main reason they didn't make an umlaut modifier is that ä is considered a distinct letter from a. It would be like asking why have a key for w ("double u") when it could have been typed as uu. Not a perfect analogy but the best I can think of right now.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Swiss here, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

    In all seriousness; it's for german, french and italian. Guess it was just determined to use the limited keys more effieciently in typing. And some are combinators and 9 of 10 people don't know which or what or how.

    https://kbdlayout.info/KBDSG/

    Ah, btw, we can only type uppercase ÄÖÜ via capslock.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm a German that uses an US keyboard with the US intl layout. I think it solves all of my keyboard needs: I have the benefits of the US layout for programming and access to all common umlauts.r RAlt+S = ẞ e.g. https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tastaturbelegung_US-International

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