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by zokier 3429 days ago
That is similar to (if bit more extreme) what I've done too. It is truly baffling how bad European layouts are, especially for programming etc. But because my native language(s) have couple of accented characters, I couldn't just switch to US layout. So I ended up transplanting those characters to US layout, which required shuffling few things around. Overall I'm pretty happy with the end result, even if it is still "just qwerty". Some things could be tweaked bit more in altgr layer but that is fairly minor thing. It is especially nice that I can fairly easily use US layout if necessary.

http://zokier.net/stuff/nappaimisto.png looks like this old picture is somewhat out of date, but shows still the basic idea.
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scrollaway 3429 days ago
Hah, nice! Do you use dead accents? I found it super useful to put all the dead `´^¨° on my altgr-shift-12345 in order to make any accented letter I might want. I use that instead of éèä etc as there's a bunch of variations of it in french, but I don't need them often enough.

This also proved really useful when I started writing in swedish and had quick access to å without having to switch layout.

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zokier 3429 days ago
No, I made the principal decision to have no dead keys. Your idea to have both dead and non-dead variations seems pretty neat, that didn't occur to me when I was doing my layout. I might steal that if I'll end up reworking the layout at some point.

Funnily enough, Å was the one key I pushed from unmodified access to altgr layer because I have so little use for it :)

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