Mastodawn

should i actually learn the russian keyboard layout for typing cyrillic, or should i just use яверты (us qwerty, but each letter is replaced with a phonetically similar russian letter)

i'm already using qwerty phonetic inputs for japanese and chinese, but those are common.

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artemist 3d ago

i suppose i do try fairly hard to stay with us qwerty when possible, e.g. i type chinese and japanese with qwerty-based imes, and i type german with qwerty (plus compose on caps lock for ß, ä, ö, and ü)

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niko 1d ago

@artemist hmm, why not A-s, A-a, etc for ß, ä, etc respectively? I don’t think German has enough symbols to warrant compose key?

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artemist 1d ago

@nrab US keyboards don't have AltGr.

Also, I use the compose key for more than that, e.g. çáéíóúàèìòùñðþ–—°≈

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niko

@artemist that’s fair enough, if you can use a single layout for ~all languages then it’s definitely worth. I’m too polish brained and I already switch my layout per language I use so I never got into the compose key community

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artemist 1d ago

@nrab i'm AMERICAN so we don't acknowledge the existence of other languages

(okay, schools do require accents for the practically mandatory spanish or french classes from age 11, but i don't remember how they were supposed to be typed. i think i got into the compose key so i could type macrons in age 14 latin class.)

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niko 1d ago

@artemist I’m so sorry for you I hope you can recover quickly

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artemist 7h ago

@nrab the american part or the latin part?

@artemist yes

@nrab i forgot most of my latin and i'm trying to improve on the american part, i already have another citizenship

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niko 6h ago

@artemist that’s great to hear, I’m happy your recovery is going well