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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: azkurz on Thu, 10 September 2009, 16:10:52

Title: Using swedish layout on a US keyboard
Post by: azkurz on Thu, 10 September 2009, 16:10:52

Ohoy!

I was wondering if someone knows how you type the pipe or vertical bar symbol on a US keyboard when using swedish settings for it? I guess I could use alt + the ASCII code for it but is there any faster way?

Title: Using swedish layout on a US keyboard
Post by: kode on Fri, 11 September 2009, 02:47:46

You could probably bind it to something like alt gr+z, I suppose.

Title: Using swedish layout on a US keyboard
Post by: DreymaR on Fri, 11 September 2009, 07:15:08

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Sweden.svg

As you can see, your stupid US keyboard is missing an important key and therefore it cannot type properly. Get yourself a proper 102/105-key board.

Title: Using swedish layout on a US keyboard
Post by: azkurz on Sun, 13 September 2009, 18:17:02

Thanks for the input guys. I decided to learn the US layout and set the special characters for swedish (åäö) under ctrl + alt + [, ', ;

I do like the placement of the special characters on the US layout better than swedish, only chatting with buddies in SE will be a bit slower.

For anyone with the same problem this might be useful: http://jonasmartinsson.50webs.com/keyboard/index.htm

Title: Using swedish layout on a US keyboard
Post by: DreymaR on Mon, 14 September 2009, 03:17:24

Ripster: That's not a stupid US keyboard. That's a damn sexy US keyboard that is.

Myself, I use the [ and ] keys for å and æ (corresponds to å and ä in Swedish) and the VK_102 (which I put in the old 'B' key position!) for ø (corresponds to Swedish ö). The ø is the most common one of those so it's not on AltGr mapping.

Title: Using swedish layout on a US keyboard
Post by: lowpoly on Wed, 16 September 2009, 07:29:18

Have a look at the US International (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#US-International) layout:

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/KB_US-International.svg/400px-KB_US-International.svg.png)

Title: Using swedish layout on a US keyboard
Post by: DreymaR on Thu, 17 September 2009, 02:50:19

An example of Dutch science (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17662-scanner-sex.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news) in my line of work (the MRI part that is, not the ... other ... part... that's just a hobby...)

Nuff said?

Title: Using swedish layout on a US keyboard
Post by: kode on Thu, 17 September 2009, 04:06:29

Quote from: ripster;118398

If it's used in the Nederlands you KNOW it's gonna be different.

Still, it's the country that gave us Edsger Dijkstra. US international is also what I'd use if I'd use a us layout