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polish, or win32?
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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?
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.
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.
+ e + ^ = ê, and + shift + E + " = Ë, etc.
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.
You can also use compose key on any distro (from my experience) with KDE Plasma or GNOME
https://ergol.org/
https://bepo.fr/wiki/Accueil
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.
They would, all diacritics is alt + letter.