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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
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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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