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Ladybug:
Do you guys (meaning those of you with English keyboards) not even have a button with ´and `? What the hell? I'm gonna go google a photo of a keyboard to figure out what you use all the keys for. We even have three extra letters that have their own buttons..
Nodaisho:
We have a ` button, that with shift goes to ~, but it looks odd to use it, like e`, see? looks odd.
pwhodges:
Yea, but they're not combining. The Alt+number or cut and paste are pretty much the only ways. It's one of the ways the computer industry has gone backwards; in the early 1980s I worked for a company* whose keyboards could be used for all European languages, and generate all the special letters and accents (even the weird ones) in a simple and mnemonic way. Their pre-Internet email was pretty cool, too. Of course, they no longer exist in a recognisable form :~|
Paul
* @Ladybug: they were Norwegian...
Ladybug:
Well, my keyboard is Norwegian, so that makes sense. The button with ´and ` combines if certain characters are pressed after it, like é, á, í, ó, ú.. Also ñ is pretty easy, same with ç, æøå (of course) etc.. It just seems weird to me to complicate things. That being said, brackets and curly brackets aren't as accessible as on English keyboards, which is sort of annoying when programming, I guess, but I'm used to it.
What doesn't exist anymore? The keyboards (if that's what you mean, it sounds like any Norwegian or maybe Swedish or Danish keyboard would do at least mostly what you're saying) or the company?
ETA: After re-reading your post, I'm guessing you meant the company, so nevermind.
Narr:
I realize localization has something to do with it. My brother, for example, sets his keyboard to portuguese because he got used to the portuguese settings while on his mission, as he was down in Brazil. It's possible to use control + alt + shift and all that other sort of jazz to easily type accented characters, but you have to set your keyboard to do it.
tl;dr
character maps are fun.
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