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Niki Tonsky

What the hell is English (United Kingdom) German?

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@nikitonsky That was a keyboard for the late Her Majesty.

Alex

@nikitonsky šŸ‘‹ we will ask ze kwestions!

JoĆ£o Silva :pika:

@nikitonsky not sure if youā€™re asking that seriously, but Iā€™m pretty sure thatā€™s German keyboard layout with English language (for autocorrect and the like) or vice versa

Niki Tonsky

@juamms but... why? Why would I want autocorrect in English if Iā€™m typing in German layout?

JoĆ£o Silva :pika:

@nikitonsky itā€™s been a few years since Iā€™ve used Windows, but in my case I had an English layout keyboard but needed to write some Portuguese characters, and if I used English - US it didnā€™t have support for accents shortcuts and the like. Itā€™s been a while though, so I might have some details wrong, but I do remember having both English/English and English/Portuguese configured.

Niki Tonsky

@juamms But, I mean, shouldnā€™t Portuguese layout just be called ā€œPortugeseā€? Why add ā€œEnglishā€ to it?

JoĆ£o Silva :pika:

@nikitonsky I might not have explained it correctly, itā€™s not Portuguese layoutā€¦ itā€™s US layout with Portuguese as a language, so I could use the shortcuts for accents and whatnot even with a US layout. I could change to just Portuguese, but then that wouldnā€™t match the actual physical keyboard layout (I had a US keyboard). Hope that makes some sense šŸ˜…

Alex Levin

@nikitonsky @juamms Considering that writing non-ascii latin is very annoying in Windows, you can either:

* install third-party solutions like PowerToys Quick Accent/KeyExt/whatever (doesn't work that well due to bugs or weird behavior)
* Use international layout (works really poorly imo)
* Use non-english layout which contains needed characters (kinda works?)

I kinda wish for MacOS solution in that regard (holding the key for alternative letters)

@nikitonsky @juamms Considering that writing non-ascii latin is very annoying in Windows, you can either:

* install third-party solutions like PowerToys Quick Accent/KeyExt/whatever (doesn't work that well due to bugs or weird behavior)
* Use international layout (works really poorly imo)
* Use non-english layout which contains needed characters (kinda works?)

Eduard Aksamitov

@nikitonsky Recently did the same thing somehow. Then couldn't delete the second one. I had to edit something in the registry according to guide from Reddit.

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