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Re:Show HN: My proposal for a new keyboard layout by 1_player on Monday November 15, 2021 @12:59PM (#29230307)
What about EurKey? https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/

It's preinstalled on Linux, and available for macOS and Windows as well. I feel a keyboard based on the US layout which far too often is considered a standard (better for coding and buggy software and games), with dead keys and diacritics is a fantastic idea.

I have migrated all my machines to use it instead of the custom layouts or the US one that's very restrictive when you need to write accents.

Re:Show HN: My proposal for a new keyboard layout by ReleaseCandidat on Monday November 15, 2021 @01:51PM (#29231041)
> What about EurKey? https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/

Not much 'euro', eastern europe is missing as a whole. E.g. polish Ł, czech ř, slovak ô, ... Either use dead keys for all diacritics or somehow add them all to the third and forth layer.

Re:Show HN: My proposal for a new keyboard layout by lopis on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @03:19AM (#29238183)
I don't get it. Is Portugal alone in having separate keys for accents? I have a key for ^ and a key for "o". If I type ^ and then o, I get ô. If I want to type a literal ^ i press ^ twice. Same for `,´,~,¨ (which is not ideal for programming, but I'm used to it). I'm missing the inverted ^ because it doesn't exist in Portuguese but you get the point. The only letter than has a dedicated key is ç.

Wouldn't this solve much of the problems of these keyboard layouts by reusing the same letters?

Re:Show HN: My proposal for a new keyboard layout by ReleaseCandidat on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @03:49AM (#29238355)
Same in most other language layouts.

But I'm talking about the euro-layout, there are keys for ý, ä, ü, ö, é, .... All of these are 'western' special characters, no eastern europe (slavic language letters) or greek letters. So users of _these_ languages, need to use dead keys or some other method (I don't know to get greek letters with this layout) for at least some of their 'special' glyphs that are not, by chance, also used in another language (for slovak and czech that's for example ä, ú, á, é, ý and í).

https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/pics/layout.png

Re:Show HN: My proposal for a new keyboard layout by 1_player on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @05:01AM (#29238805)
It does in fact include the polish Ł, czech ř, slovak ô, check the Layout page and the shift and Altgr tabs, they are made using the diacritic dead keys
Re:Show HN: My proposal for a new keyboard layout by JeremyTheo on Monday November 15, 2021 @02:59PM (#29231915)
I wanted to post the same. I am German and I am using it for my daily tasks. It combines the easy to program US layout with easy access to German Umlauts Ä, Ö, Ü, ß.

Highly recommended. No idea though for any other languages other than German.

Re:Show HN: My proposal for a new keyboard layout by fowlie on Monday November 15, 2021 @04:56PM (#29233346)
It works very well for Norwegian too.
Re:Show HN: My proposal for a new keyboard layout by eirki on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @01:01AM (#29237398)
Does it not lack a proper æ?
Re:Show HN: My proposal for a new keyboard layout by fowlie on Saturday November 27, 2021 @05:53PM (#29364421)
Sorry for late response, but no. RightAlt+q gives æ, RightAlt+w gives å and RightAlt+l gives ø.
Re:Show HN: My proposal for a new keyboard layout by abrowne on Monday November 15, 2021 @01:40PM (#29230887)
> EurKey? https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/

> It's preinstalled on Linux

Note that at least on Ubuntu/Debian, the included version is older and a bit different. Not unusable or anything, but not the same as on the website.

Re:Show HN: My proposal for a new keyboard layout by nomdep on Monday November 15, 2021 @08:31PM (#29235497)
Isn’t the same as US-International?