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‽ 😁

#kde #plasma #linux #diacritics

@Merritt this is why I support Merrittocracy! Would it be possible for an app to expose to plasma-keyboard a limited set of valid characters for the current focused field (numeric for phone number input, alphanumeric + some special chars for email addresses & domain names)? Could I use this as emoji / unicode input? Favorite chars/ charsets?
@bogdanbiv Yes, most toolkits provide a way for an app to specify what a textfield should support (e.g. digits only, email characters, etc). Qt for example: https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qml-qtquick-textinput.html#inputMethodHints-prop
TextInput QML Type | Qt Quick | Qt 6.10.2

Displays an editable line of text.

@Merritt Sorry for being unclear - is there a way for a QT app to expose to plasma-keyboard that the input mask is in X-Y range/ pattern/ charset. From QT6 docs it's unclear if that field description is available to [virtual] plasma-keyboard. I hope this makes more sense. Also, discord and mastodon, other web-based social networks allow for emoji input. Emoji input should be available to all desktop apps as well, text editor, konsole. I'll get out of your ears/ hair and go bugging someone else.
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