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Re:Kazakhstan Cheers New Alphabet, Except for All Those Apos... by tom_mellior on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @08:17AM (#16157902)
> Why not use US ANSI layout in the OS to match the keyboard? Because it doesn't contain characters required to type Estonian words.

You can use dead keys and character combinations to get characters the keyboard doesn't support directly. This is what's done in France, where the standard AZERTY keyboard doesn't have keys for every French letter. For some letters it also only has a lowercase version, not uppercase. (Accents are optional on uppercase letters in French because... who knows why.) There is a dedicated key for the letter ù though, which only appears in a single word of the French language.

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Re:Kazakhstan Cheers New Alphabet, Except for All Those Apos... by louhike on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @09:13AM (#16158253)
> Accents are optional on uppercase letters

Unlike what some french believe, they are not supposed to be optional:

http://www.academie-francaise.fr/questions-de-langue#5_stron...

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Re:Kazakhstan Cheers New Alphabet, Except for All Those Apos... by harperlee on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @10:01AM (#16158617)
> Accents are optional on uppercase letters

In spanish it used to be the same. Old printing technologies were not so flexible as a screen, so for large imprints it made more sense to have all letters be the same size whilst not wasting space above the letters.

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Re:Kazakhstan Cheers New Alphabet, Except for All Those Apos... by wazoox on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @09:32AM (#16158403)
With both MacOS and Linux, you can access all accented uppercase letters simply by using the Caps-Lock key. For some unfathomable reason, Windows makes it much more difficult.
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