Fun, but I don’t love the Polish word selection because a lot of these are supposed to contain special characters and they’re not actual real Polsih words without them.
Like blad - that’s not a word. Błąd is a word, it means a mistake. So does this count or no? Or kal vs kał, one is a word (means feces) and one is just some letters.
In Poland we use standard qwerty keyboards with Polish keyboard layout set (called Polish Programmers), you press alt+character to get the special version (like alt+s gives you ś, alt+a gives you ą and so on, the only nonintuitive one is alt+x which is ź (because alt+z is taken by ż). Combine with shift or caps lock for capital versions. No issues.
Oh, noooo… I’ve been now thinking of using Alt+letter to launch !ahk@programming.dev scripts! Oh, well… Guess I’ll continue to live in MURRIKA instead of learning like the rest of the world.
Or you can use a French keyboard layout, type ` followed by a to get à, same with â, ä, or ç. É has its own key, since it’s more common and the only letter that uses the acute accent. No more complicated than key combinations, and easier hand positions than 3-key combinations, really.
Fun, but I don’t love the Polish word selection because a lot of these are supposed to contain special characters and they’re not actual real Polsih words without them.
Like blad - that’s not a word. Błąd is a word, it means a mistake. So does this count or no? Or kal vs kał, one is a word (means feces) and one is just some letters.
Out of curiosity, if an average person were to type it in all caps on their computer, would they be able to easily type the diacritics?
They would, all diacritics is alt + letter.
In Poland we use standard qwerty keyboards with Polish keyboard layout set (called Polish Programmers), you press alt+character to get the special version (like alt+s gives you ś, alt+a gives you ą and so on, the only nonintuitive one is alt+x which is ź (because alt+z is taken by ż). Combine with shift or caps lock for capital versions. No issues.
Oh, noooo… I’ve been now thinking of using Alt+letter to launch !ahk@programming.dev scripts! Oh, well… Guess I’ll continue to live in MURRIKA instead of learning like the rest of the world.
Neat. I wish the French had something similar!
it doesn’t work as well for French because there are multiple accents for a given letter (è, é, ê, ë…)
Can do it with the compose key if you’re on *nix, and here’s an implementation for Windows.
<compose> + e + ^ = ê, and <compose> + shift + E + " = Ë, etc.
You can also use compose key on any distro (from my experience) with KDE Plasma or GNOME
Or you can use a French keyboard layout, type ` followed by a to get à, same with â, ä, or ç. É has its own key, since it’s more common and the only letter that uses the acute accent. No more complicated than key combinations, and easier hand positions than 3-key combinations, really.