Why is it so fucking difficult to write non latin characters on windows with an English keyboard? REEEEEE

Why is it so fucking difficult to write non latin characters on windows with an English keyboard? REEEEEE

On mac you just hold down the key you want then choose, é for example is e and 2

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Because fuck any language that's not English. AMERICA FUCK YEAH!

Good pic OP

This is why I love my MacBook

this guy again

Thanks m8, over a million hours in msPaint™

On Linux, you just use the Compose key.

Compose e '
é

Compose " a
ä

Compose / o
o

Compose s s
ß

Compose = e
€

Compose 3 4
¾

Compose , c
ç

It's very logical and simple.

How does the OS differentiate between you wanting to chose an alternate version of that letter and you just wanting it repeated?
Anyway, for my language, you just hold down the alt key to get the alternate variant. Is it more complicated than that for French, or are you retarded?

How do you type æ or ⅔ on your keyboard?

this

fuck france and francish

meant for

passe à Bépo, mon p0te

Calme toi Roger

>æ
I don't, all the letters in my language have 1 possible diactric sign and a plain latin equivalent
>⅔
2/3

Good. Now read OP again, where it clearly says
>with an English keyboard

OP looks at his keyboard, and thus is retarded.
He's also a macfag, not surprising anyone.

Are you having some fun trolling on Sup Forums? You're doing great!

Not OP but switching keyboard layouts is annoying and unnecessary when proper operating systems (not Windows) have the Compose key.

Change your keyboard layout to US International

>not having this namefag filtered

don't switch, just use a proper layout for your language
QWERTY even for English sucks anyway

>windows
meanwhile on linux you can do anything from customized layouts with up to 8 layers, to compose keys and even complex input methods that let you search for a unicode codepoint by name, or get a list of all accents you could apply to a characte you typed

All you have to do is switch to software that doesn't try to hinder the user

What kind of non-latin characters are we speaking here?

é is as easy as pressing ´ and then e

not him but I type æ using altgr+v. Don't have the other one mapped because it's pretty pointless (and extremely hard to read compared to 2/3)

>don't switch, just use a proper layout for your language
Most layouts don't even have proper typographical quotes (“”), an em-dash (—) or ellipsis dots (…).

There is no way around a Compose key.

Sup Forums probably filters these characters tho.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark

Remember " is not a typographically correct quotation mark.

>deadkeys
Go fucking die in a fire if you think deadkeys are an acceptable way to type modifiers

unless of course you enjoy having stuff like `echo` get turned into ècho`all the time

>Most layouts don't even have proper typographical quotes (“”), an em-dash (—) or ellipsis dots (…).
Mine does, and I don't see a need for a compose key either.

I don't believe you. Name a keyboard layout that has typographical quotes, an em-dash and ellipsis dots.

Well, I haven't exactly given it a name yet. Maybe I could call it “Iamnotretardedandknowhowtoeditatextfile”? Hmm, not catchy enough.

I always disable dead keys so everything else is easier.
And stuff like é is just mapped to alt-gr e in xmodmap.

So you're binding a thousand modifier combinations just to type special characters.
Cumbersome and frankly retarded, when you could just use a Compose key without any modification at all.

BÉPO does

But I don't want or like a compose key. It's slow, it's cumbersome, and if I'm typing ... I might as well just type ...

Not that guy, but a thousand is overstating the problem.
It is likely 5-20 lines in a text file.
It would take 1-5 minutes to set up for the first time and then it would work as long as the machine worked.
It is much easier than you'd think.

... is not the same as …

OP here I use:
é è É Ê ê ï à ú « » …

On a regular basis.

> not using œ
> ú instead of ù

oeuf is fine and you know it.

And yeah I fucked up the u

I wonder if Sup Forums filters the coffee key

>missing the point

Bépo, mang.
Or qwerty-lafayette if you still want a qwerty keyboard.

bepo.fr/wiki/Accueil
fabi1cazenave.github.io/qwerty-lafayette/

ftfy