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Offline azkurz

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Using swedish layout on a US keyboard
« 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?

Offline kode

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« Reply #1 on: Fri, 11 September 2009, 02:47:46 »
You could probably bind it to something like alt gr+z, I suppose.

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« Reply #2 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.
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Offline azkurz

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« Reply #3 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

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« Reply #4 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.
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Offline lowpoly

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« Reply #5 on: Wed, 16 September 2009, 07:29:18 »
Have a look at the US International layout:


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« Reply #6 on: Thu, 17 September 2009, 02:50:19 »
An example of Dutch science in my line of work (the MRI part that is, not the ... other ... part... that's just a hobby...)

Nuff said?
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Offline kode

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« Reply #7 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