Saluton, Jonathan!
On 19/02/2013, at 12:39 PM, Jonathan Cooper <drd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've just created a stack with fields that will contain text in Esperanto.
> I have a keyboard layout ("Esperanto-sc") installed on my Mac that allows
> me to type special accented Esperanto characters (eg, "ĉ", "ŭ").
I speak Esperanto fluently, and in the past have been quite active in the
Esperanto community in Australia.
The easiest way to type Esperanto with your Mac is not by using a dedicated or
custom-made keyboard layout, but by using a layout that is already pre-shipped
as standard on every Mac installation: the 'US Extended" layout. This layout
allows you to type just about *every* accented character in all latin-based
alphabets. Using the 'US Extended' layout, you type the Esperanto characters
like this:
* to type ĉ, ĝ, ĥ, ĵ, or ŝ, type "Option+6" to activate the circumflex, then
the base character you want.
* to type ŭ, type "Option+B" (for 'breve', the name of the accent), then 'u'.
The advantage of using the 'US Extended' layout, is that it can also handle
*all* other accented letters, from latin-based languages. I regularly have to
write text in Brazilian Portuguese, for instance, which uses ç, ã, õ, à, á, é,
ó, â and ô - and I do it all from the same 'US Extended' layout. I can confirm
from first-hand experience that using the same layout you can also type text in
Spanish, French, German, Polish, Icelandic, Maori and even Ghanan! These days,
a user will normally only change keyboard layouts if they are changing
*alphabets* - ie., if they are changing from a latin-based language to a
cyrillic language - or greek, arabic, hebrew, chinese, etc. If you're sticking
to latin languages, then you should be able to use a single keyboard layout.
You will find, that 'extended' latin layouts exist in other systems as well. I
know that a similar, all-ecompassing latin layout exists by default in the
standard Ubuntu linux instal, and I would be very surprised if nothing like
this were to be found in the current versions of Windows.
I hope this information helps! Se vi ankoraŭ havas dubojn, aũ se vi bezonas pli
da informoj - aŭ se vi simple volas ekzerci vian Esperanton per babilado kun
amika samideano - ne hezitu kontakti min eksterliste! :-)
Dezirante al vi sukceson en viaj esperantaj laboroj,
--
Igor Couto
Sydney, Australia
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