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snubnose:
--- Quote from: Thrudd on 16 Sep 2020, 09:52 ---See!
This is what happens when you don't practice a second language for extended periods of time.
My other excuse is that the standard character set doesn't do the German sharp s so people and some translation programs use a double s
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Well, for the record, for some reason according to current german orthography rules, as defined by the Duden staff, the "ß" is discontinued and you're supposed to write "ss" instead all the time now.
Which is sometimes a big problem because for example german "Masse" means "mass" while "Maße" means "measurements". And yes both words are spelled slightly differently.
The umlauts "ÄÖÜäöü" are still in full use though.
Frankly I think the Duden staff is a bit nuts for all these new rules they introduced for no good reason. I mostly just ignore them. And the german keyboard hasnt been changed and still offers "ß" as a direct key just fine.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 16 Sep 2020, 16:04 ---I use a Windows add-on called WizKey which provides readily remembered key sequences for a large number of characters (and you can add custom ones) - using that I can either type "ctrl-; s" for ß, or hit the control key twice to bring up a menu with all the options on it:
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I'm surprised that you still need an addon for that. I remember having to hold alt and then type in some number for the accented letters that we had in my Spanish class, and was so relieved when I got my first Mac, and most of the "special" characters were far more intuitive. The compose key on Linux makes even more sense.
pwhodges:
Agreed. Back in the 1980s, the Norwegian computer company Norsk Data had a word processor (NOTIS-WP) and terminals (a couple of Tandberg models) with a dedicated "supershift" key which enabled the composition of all European diacritics. WizKey provides the closest to that experience that I have found on Windows - I mean "ctrl-: a" for ä or "ctrl-- o" for ō is hardly arduous. But WizKey also gives easy access to the whole of Unicode - it's handy for me sometimes to be able to insert Katakana characters pretty simply as well.
Tova:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 17 Sep 2020, 08:05 ---
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 16 Sep 2020, 16:04 ---I use a Windows add-on called WizKey which provides readily remembered key sequences for a large number of characters (and you can add custom ones) - using that I can either type "ctrl-; s" for ß, or hit the control key twice to bring up a menu with all the options on it:
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I'm surprised that you still need an addon for that. I remember having to hold alt and then type in some number for the accented letters that we had in my Spanish class, and was so relieved when I got my first Mac, and most of the "special" characters were far more intuitive. The compose key on Linux makes even more sense.
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The addon looks useful, but you don't need it. Install an international keyboard and type right-alt-s.
ß <-- produced on windows 10 by following the steps above.
hedgie:
Aah. Interesting. I haven't really used Windows since the G4 came out, so I'm not very familiar with the modern state of things.
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