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by felixfoertsch 1049 days ago
I have been using EURKey for a few years now. You might like it. https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu
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Nice project. However it makes writing in some languages merely possible but not easy. For example Portuguese uses a lot of ã and õ, which are only available via dead keys. If I have to use dead keys anyway, then I'd rather use a Compose key, aptly mapped on the otherwise-useless Insert key.

Besides, Romanian language is not fully supported, lacking ț and ă, and Polish too, lacking ą and ę.

The problem with eurkey is the high enter key on German keyboards, it's kinda made for US keyboards. (I usually map caps-aous to äöüß and that's good enough for me).

My problem is a proper layout on a German keyboard, not some weird Umlauts on a US one :P

Thanks! It does indeed look better than the prevalent "US intl", which places Ö on the P key in favor of accented O.

I think, because I only ever need umlauts, I still prefer "German (US)" which only adds umlauts to the US layout.

Yeah, I love EURKey, it even includes the capital ẞ. The only thing I’d like is an easier typographic apostrophe (’ instead of ') which is on Ctrl+Alt+Shift+0 (though I do use it almost automatically, nowadays).