ceargaest

[tʃæɑ̯rˠɣæːst]

linguist & software engineer in Lenapehoking; jewish ancom trans woman.

since twitter's burning gonna try bringing my posts about language stuff and losing my shit over star wars and such here - hi!


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tjc
@tjc

For three years, I've been typing accented characters by copy/paste. Once in a while I think, "maybe I should learn how to type an accented character like 'é' by pressing a modifier key and then typing the letter, like I used to do on MacOS". Then I do a search and it reminds me of why I never try to learn anything. Why does this rely on a virtual "compose key" when physical keyboard layouts have been de-facto-standardized for how many years? Why do I have to choose a key to remap and then find the configuration option to remap it just to type common characters that exist in many natural languages? Sure, I could figure out how to remap something to the compose key, every time I set up a new computer. But why? Life's too short for this. I'm just going to keep copying and pasting (until I finally give up and get a Mac again).


atax1a
@atax1a

There's a config file that lets you add additional Compose sequences. But, last time we tried using Linux, it only actually works if all of your software uses "X Input Method". The default GTK input method hardcodes the default compose sequences and does not read the customizations. (:


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