# Forget about switching keyboard layouts with the "Compose Key"

- Institution: CERN
- Department: IT Lightning Talks (ITLT)
- Speaker: Daniel Abad
- Year: 2018
- Language: English
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3010067)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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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## Lectures

1. [Forget about switching keyboard layouts with the "Compose Key"](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3010067/6e8aefe0bbac), 8 min (CERN's player)