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João Silva :pika:

@nikitonsky not sure if you’re asking that seriously, but I’m pretty sure that’s German keyboard layout with English language (for autocorrect and the like) or vice versa

20 Jul 2023 at 22:29 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mas.to
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Niki Tonsky

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

21 Jul 2023 at 0:24 | Open on mastodon.online
João Silva :pika:

@nikitonsky it’s been a few years since I’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 didn’t have support for accents shortcuts and the like. It’s been a while though, so I might have some details wrong, but I do remember having both English/English and English/Portuguese configured.

21 Jul 2023 at 0:30 | Open on mas.to
Niki Tonsky

@juamms But, I mean, shouldn’t Portuguese layout just be called “Portugese”? Why add “English” to it?

21 Jul 2023 at 14:38 | Open on mastodon.online
João Silva :pika:

@nikitonsky I might not have explained it correctly, it’s not Portuguese layout… it’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 wouldn’t match the actual physical keyboard layout (I had a US keyboard). Hope that makes some sense 😅

21 Jul 2023 at 19:11 | Open on mas.to
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?)

21 Jul 2023 at 0:45 | Open on mastodon.social
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