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this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2024
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Try this instead if you have a number pad on your keyboard:
Hold alt and type 0233 and then release the alt key.
For my favourite, type : then hold alt and type 0254. 😛
I have not had a number pad on my keyboard for some time :( I remember this arcane magic
I believe you can do this with the on-screen keyboard! If you're using Windows, I think that can be accessed with super+u (but I haven't used Windows in a long time so I apologize if I misremembered or if this is no longer accurate).
I'll give this a shot!
Or better yet, start using the US-international keyboard layout. You press the accent you want (', `, ", ~, ...) and the letter you want it on, and boom. Writing normal versions of those symbols requires a space after writing them, but that's easy to get used to.
It's pretty much the default setting in the Netherlands.
For most letters RightAlt-[The letter] will do it for me.
That sounds easier than remembering the arcane number associated with an accent.
I use US International with no dead keys, so ` ' and ~ all work normally, but you can do right-alt (alt gr) + a to make à and so on.
I tried this for a bit, until I came into work hungover one Monday and for the life of me couldn't figure out why my password wasn't working.
(May have been the Canadian multilingual layout, I don't remember)
I remember this from working on a DOS PC with a German keyboard. Which has no backslash character, among other characters one need for programming. Having äöü at your fingertips is no help if you need [].
On macOS you can hold down ‘e’ to do this, too.