On 2002.08.22, 23:37, Carl W. Brown <cbrown@xnetinc.com> wrote:
> The old DOS Brazilian keyboard was one of the best kept secrets. It
> would work for a lot of different languages not just Portuguese. For
> example he mentions using the "~" with a vowel.
The current 102-key portuguese Windows keyboard still does it. It has
allows also any vowel+diaeresis and vowel+grave, though modern (post
1945) portuguese orthography uses, among those, only "à" (U+00E0) and
(seldom) "ü" (U+00FC). (IIRC, the portuguese Mac keyboard does this
also.)
This OT because I'm cramming all possible Unicode characters in my
keyboard using Keyman, and I had to remap the whole thing onto a US
keyboard layout, as Keyman went funny about the dead keys in the
portuguese keyboard. (More later, perhaps.)
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