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Benta:

--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on March 08, 2023, 09:38:50 pm ---I do have difficulty remembering the difference between them, e.g. è vs. é, for example when writing Bézier (curve or surface).

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A tip for accent aigu or accent grave (back from my high school days) the word:

élève (as in pupil).

The accents point to the top of the "l" like an 'up' arrow. Easy to remember, I use it at least once a week although I don't write in French, but for names as you mention.

thm_w:

--- Quote from: Kleinstein on March 08, 2023, 08:20:02 am ---The english keyboard is a little more convenient for programming, but at least the German one is not that bad either.  The main thing is "^" that is a bid odd and if in doubt, e.g. for a 2^a  use  the keys for ^ and space to get just the ^.

It is still not very practical to switch keyboard layouts just for a different task (maybe Ok if you switch to something completely different, like Arabic of Japanese). It causes too much confusion.

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You can get used to it if you commit to it. But yes, initially it is frustrating.
Much easier to just buy a different keyboard with some custom keys or something.

Nominal Animal:

--- Quote from: thm_w on March 08, 2023, 10:34:54 pm ---Much easier to just buy a different keyboard with some custom keys or something.
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Buy?  No, just change the keyboard mapping to suit yourself better.  For some keyboards, you can even get replacement or compatible key hats without anything printed on them.

For Windows, use the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator application.

I'm sure Macs have one as well, might be 3rd party though.

For Linux, your Desktop Environment has a Keyboard control applet that should let you do most things.
If you want to modify or create a new one, usable on GUI-less direct console also, just copy and modify or create a standard Linux keyboard translation map as described in man 5 keymaps.  All these are defined in human-readable text files, with all tools needed for their manipulation included in all Linux distributions by default.

If one starts by duplicating the nearest equivalent with a new unambiquous name, and makes sure they can switch between the two layouts, and after reboot the original one is selected by default, then one can just go ahead and experiment.

pdenisowski:

--- Quote from: thm_w on March 08, 2023, 10:34:54 pm ---Much easier to just buy a different keyboard with some custom keys or something.

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Or use stickers - I've done this plenty of times when trying to learn a new keyboard layout. 

thm_w:
Yeah, stickers or remap is of course the first best option.

What seemed to be implied above was that the keyboard being used did not have enough keys for these special characters.

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