On 2017-11-24 17:41, Skip Montanaro wrote: > Perhaps for my next computer I should choose a > non-ASCII keyboard option when configuring it. > > Skip >
I'm quite fond of the US international keyboard layout. It lets you type most Latin-lettered languages with relative ease (including, obviously, the few accented letters used in English). It's conveniently available (and almost identical) on all (major) operating systems, but alas Windows only has a dead-keys variant built in. (But I believe you can download a no-dead-keys variant somewhere) It's nice because (with a no-dead-keys version) unless you press AltGr, everything's the same as with a traditional US keyboard (which is not entirely suitable for the English language on its own). On Windows machines I only use occasionally (and may not have admin rights on) I tend to set up both "US" and "US international" keyboard layouts and switch between them depending on what I'm typing. It's not ideal, but it's better than either programming being a pain in the arse (with all the dead keys) or not being able to type natural-language words properly. -- Thomas Jollans -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
