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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by Swizec on Monday July 03, 2017 @07:00PM (#14692082)
> QWERTZ is already bad for e.g. programming with all its punctuation (typing "]" means holding altgr and pressing 9), so that would make it even worse.

This is why I switched to a US layout a few years ago. Mac in particular makes US layout pleasant to use with European languages. Want a funny S? Hold S, pick what you want. All these are one longpress, and one num key, away: ß ś š

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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by CrystalLangUser on Monday July 03, 2017 @10:21PM (#14693044)
I personally think the bubble takes way too long to pop up. There are hotkey alternatives to a lot of the common characters. alt+u makes the next character have an umlaut (¨). alt+e -> ´. alt+s -> ß. alt+c -> ç, etc.
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