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Forget about switching keyboard layouts with the "Compose Key"

Daniel Abad · CERN

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About

Growing up with a Spanish keyboard was not an easy childhood (using Shift+7 (/) to search in vim, or having to type AltGr+[ to actually have an opening bracket), so at some point in my life I switched to an American keyboard. At the beginning I was happy switching layouts to either do some coding or talk to my mum (I am not a fan of the classical excuse "sorry for my typos, I don't have the 'ñ' in my keyboard"). Things got much worse when I started to need French characters (ç, è) to interact with some services at CERN, or some Slovak letters (č, đ) to talk to Robert, my Slovak colleague . Then I discovered the Compose Key and my life has been different ever since..

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The talk

  1. Forget about switching keyboard layouts with the "Compose Key" 2018-06-15 · 8 min · CERN's player

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Institution
CERN
Department
IT Lightning Talks (ITLT)
Speaker
Daniel Abad
Year
2018
Language
English
Source
CERN
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