qwerty-fr VS wincompose

See qwerty-fr[1] for a keyboard layout that is based on QWERTY but with a sane placement of keys contrary to US international.

[1] https://github.com/qwerty-fr/qwerty-fr#readme

If you're in need of AZERTY-specific keys and you're on a QWERTY layout, take a look at https://github.com/qwerty-fr/qwerty-fr.

It's a strict superset of QWERTY, and it enables entering e.g. è and È with altgr+e and shift+altgr+e respectively.

https://github.com/qwerty-fr/qwerty-fr may be of interest to you then!

Contrary to QWERTY-fr, you can't type accentuated letters directly with the Spanish layout[1]. I find that it considerably lowers my speed when typing French.

I agree that QWERTY-fr looks bloated on the first look, but the position of keys actually make sense so it is super easy to learn. I recommend you to read the philosophy[2] behind this keyboard layout.

What do you think?

[1] https://www.goodtyping.com/teclatESP.png

[2] https://github.com/qwerty-fr/qwerty-fr#-philosophy-overview

Touche compose. Natif sous linux, et sous windows : https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose

Julia has made symbol input manageable and lets you define infix operators for many of the Unicode symbols that make sense for that. [1] And JuliaMono was designed to support the symbols that Julia does. [2]

I generally do quite fine with my Compose Key configuration, though (even on Windows, where I use WinCompose). [3]

[1]: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/unicode-input/

[2]: https://juliamono.netlify.app/

[3]: https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose

On Windows, I use http://wincompose.info/ for all my special-character needs (and use the system compose key on Linux).

na windowsa jest sobie WinCompose

Credit to wincompose's GUI for inspiration, which provides similar functionality on Windows.

I’ve previously used a nice little tool called WinCompose for exactly that. Looks like it’s still going:

http://wincompose.info/

Malgré to, yo recomanda WinCompose o simil si tu es in Windows.

I use WinCompose which gives me the same compose-key functionality that's built into Linux. I've chosen one key on my keyboard to be the Compose key (I use Right-Alt, but you can pick any key that's convenient). Then I can type

Assuming you are on desktop/laptop:

The long-winded way is to use your OS's character map tool: find the glyph you want there and copy+paste. Under Windows 10+ there is the emoji keyboard (hit [win]+;) which also gives access to much more including super-/sub- script characters, which is a little more convenient than character map. Presumably other OSs have similar available too.

Better is to have support for a compose key sequence. Usually build in to Linux & similar, you just might have to find the setting to turn it on and configure what your compose key is. Under Windows I use http://wincompose.info/ and there are a couple of similar tools out there. In any case it is useful for more than super- and sub-scripts: accented characters & similar (áàäæçffñ), some fractions (¼,½,¾), other symbols (°∞™®↑↓←→‽¡¿⸘♥⋘»‱), and configurable too so you can make what you use most easiest to access (and if you are really sad like me you can do something https://xkcd.com/2583/ to type hallelujah too!).