I added diacritics support to Plasma Keyboard!
https://merritt.codes/blog/2026/03/13/2026/_plasma-keyboard-funding-diacritics
Now I can more easily write German words as I continue learning it, such as: über, schön, and Straße!
Also, I can sprinkle my lovely symbols in my writing without having to resort to the compose key or copy-pasting — isn't that great‽ 😁
“How is that /ɲ/-sound spelled again?”
“I guess it depends. Is it Spanish or Portuguese?”
“It's ‘exotic’.”
“Oh, then you can spell it however you like!”
#diacritic #diacritics #DiacriticalConfusion #FaxeKondiñho #TypographyInTheWild
How is #Windows still so bad at entering characters with #diacritics? I know you can install custom keyboards or use alt-codes (and I have done both), but is there really no simpler way to use dead keys on a standard English keyboard? I guess I could switch to a Canadian French keyboard and remap my mental keyboard when I'm using Windows...or I could just do what I usually do and avoid Windows like the plague.
I've found only two heterophonic homonyms if non-English languages (and they're... arguable), and I'd be fascinated in hear if there are any others. I found:
1. #French couvent ("convent" or "to sit/brood on", although the latter is archaic)
2. #Portugese pelo ("hair" or "to peel", although my Portugese-speaking friend says she'd still spell the former "pêlo" despite the push to reform the language's #diacritics)
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