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| ===== Dead Keys ===== | ===== Dead Keys ===== |
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| Things get messier when you try to type in two different languages. The Latin American keymap is well designed for modern Spanish, but without regard for compatibility with UK/US layouts, so almost all of the symbolic characters are in different places in the two keyboards. The position of symbols is probably more influenced by historical accident than actual usage anyway, so for most users it makes sense to have almost all of the symbols in the same place in each language. This is the rationale behind the [[wp>Keyboard Layout#US International|US International layout]]. There isn't a "British International" layout, but the standard keyboard does a reasonable job if you want to type Spanish: acutely accented vowels can all be reached without dead keys through AltGr+letter combinations. However, there's no easy way to access ñ or Ñ. The layout below adds these characters as AltGr combinations to the n and ; keys (ñ on the Latin American keyboard is in the same place as ; on the UK). A dead key ´ is also added in place of ` and ` itself can be accessed with shift+`. The other symbols on that key are miserably useless anyway. | Things get messier when you try to type in two different languages. The Latin American keymap is well designed for modern Spanish, but without regard for compatibility with UK/US layouts, so almost all of the symbolic characters are in different places in the two keyboards. The position of symbols is probably more influenced by historical accident than actual usage anyway, so for most users it makes sense to have almost all of the symbols in the same place in each language. This is the rationale behind the [[wp>Keyboard Layout#US International|US International layout]]. There's also a (not-very-standard, Windows-only) "Extended British" layout, suitable for various European languages, but the standard keyboard does a reasonable job if you want to type Spanish: acutely accented vowels can all be reached without dead keys through AltGr+letter combinations. However, there's no easy way to access ñ or Ñ (the Windows extended layout uses AltGr+# as a dead key). The layout below adds these characters as AltGr combinations to the n and ; keys (ñ on the Latin American keyboard is in the same place as ; on the UK). A dead key ´ is also added in place of ` and ` itself can be accessed with shift+` (the extended layout uses this as a dead key for grave accents). AltGr+` acts as a dead key for umlauts. The other symbols on that key are miserably useless anyway. |
| ====== Caps Lock and Control ====== | ====== Caps Lock and Control ====== |
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| [[go>Keytweak]] can't be used to swap " and @ because they are not keys (it could swap 2 and ' along with their shifted values). However, a new keyboard layout can be created using [[go>Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator]]. This is designed for creating foreign language layouts, and so doesn't permit you to move "special" keys like control and caps lock around. But it has the benefit that it can change the layout for just one user of the system, and can be swapped easily in the same way that you would swap between standard layouts for different languages. The Creator seems to hang for a while on Windows 7, but does actually work fine if you have a lot of patience, and will compile (separate bits of) code good for 64 bit as well as 32 bit systems. Here's just the layout: | [[go>Keytweak]] can't be used to swap " and @ because they are not keys (it could swap 2 and ' along with their shifted values). However, a new keyboard layout can be created using [[go>Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator]]. This is designed for creating foreign language layouts, and so doesn't permit you to move "special" keys like control and caps lock around. But it has the benefit that it can change the layout for just one user of the system, and can be swapped easily in the same way that you would swap between standard layouts for different languages. The Creator seems to hang for a while on Windows 7, but does actually work fine if you have a lot of patience, and will compile (separate bits of) code good for 64 bit as well as 32 bit systems. Here's just the layout: |
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| * {{:uk-us_hybrid_keyboard_layout_for_windows.zip|UK keyboard layout with " and @ reversed}} | * {{:windows:uk-us_hybrid_keyboard_layout_for_windows.zip|UK keyboard layout with " and @ reversed}} |
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| And the "international" (well, designed just for Spanish really) version: | And the "international" (well, designed just for Spanish really) version: |
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| * {{:windows:uk-us_hybrid_international_layout_for_windows.zip|UK international keyboard layout with " and @ reversed}} | * {{:windows:uk-us_extended_hybrid.zip|UK international keyboard layout with " and @, ` and ' (dead keys) reversed}} |
