Easy entry of polish characters to an azerty keyboard...

[TacticalCoder]

My girlfriend would like to input the polish characters with a diacritical mark: a, c, e, l, n, o, s, z and z  (there are two different z).     (I did put them here in ASCII because I'm lazy ; )

Can I easily add shortcuts to her Mac so that she can stays in AZERTY layout (not forcing her to switch to another layout) and then do something like: right alt + option + a = 'polish a'?

The default dead key thing she doesn't like that much and anyway it doesn't seem to be working that great: option + ` + c closes Chrome tabs etc.

So instead of composing using dead keys she'd rather add the nine additional shortcuts using some modifier.

So that's it: no alternative layout (no layout switching), no compose/dead keys.  How can I create the 9 shortcuts she wants?

(I'm very familiar with that kind of stuff on Linux but I'm no OS X guru so detailed instructions would be most welcome : )

[IvanIvanovich]

It's been awhile since I needed to create a custom keymap on mac, but this might be of use.

[flyball]

option + ` + c closes Chrome tabs etc.

does she know what the option key is? i'm pretty sure chrome has never used the option key for anything

[TacticalCoder]

It's been awhile since I needed to create a custom keymap on mac, but this might be of use.

Thanks a lot.  I downloaded Yukelele and created a new "layout".  I then put that layout in ~/Library/Keyboard layouts/ and now everything is working fine : )

[czarek]

I think ControllerMate or Keyremap4Macbook is the way to go if you don't like to create a new layout. By the way layouts are just XML files if you open them up. Pretty easy to modify by hand.

[TacticalCoder]

I think ControllerMate or Keyremap4Macbook is the way to go if you don't like to create a new layout. By the way layouts are just XML files if you open them up. Pretty easy to modify by hand.

Ah good to know, thanks!  I'm used to edit such things on Linux but didn't know anything about OS X: I didn't even check the kind of file "Yukelele" did crank.  She's away with her laptop as of now but out of curiosity once she gets back I'll "diff" the new layout I made her with the one I used as an example.