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Finnish Dvorak keyboard layout / Suomalainen Dvorak-näppäimistö
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Mac OS layout #1

Open Kalhama opened 4 years ago

Kalhama commented 4 years ago

Hi! I have started creating a mac os layout based of the linux layout. I‘m just wondering what are the unicode equivalents of the characters beginning with prefix "dead"?. IE.

key <AE06> { [ 6, asciicircum, dead_circumflex, doublelowquotemark ] }; in https://github.com/brndd/dvorakfi/blob/master/linux/dvficstm

My work in progress so far: (openable with a standard text editor) Unofficial Finnish Dvorak.keylayout.zip

brndd commented 4 years ago

Dead keys are used for character combinations, so pressing a dead key followed by a valid character will create a combination of those two characters. In practice this is usually used to create various diacritics, so in the case of dead circumflex if you press AltGr-6 and then a you will create an â. The standard Finnish layout uses these on eg. the "/^/~ key to the right of the Å key.

Also, it occurs to me Mac keyboards don't have an AltGr key. I've never used one myself, but whatever key you use to type @ on the standard Finnish layout should be that key. Perhaps it's the right-hand side option (⌥) key, or Ctrl+Option.