@mntmn it's great! Can only recommend!
@mntmn Apple already solved this and my muscles are trained on their solution.
@tommythorn what's their solution?
@mntmn A gamut of Alt-key combinations, eg. "Alt-'" for æ, "Alt-e e" for é, "Alt-e a" for á, etc. I assume it covers all or most of what europeans need.
@mntmn Furthermore, they have AFAICT used the same mapping for decades so I'd expect a lot of people are used to them.
OT: even when I lived in Denmark and France, I *much* preferred a US-programmer-friendly layout w/Apple's extensions over a regional bizarre layout.
@tommythorn @mntmn Well, mosty western/northern European ... it;s not a solution help for Central-Eastern languages :-(
@tommythorn @mntmn I think yes: Polish, Lithuanian, Czech, Slovak...
@mntmn Ä on the A key? ẞ on the S key? Nah, that's way too consistent for Europe
@mntmn that's awesome. I've been using "US layout with AltGr dead keys" for years, but this one seems even better. Thanks!
@mntmn CapsLock has to go, that is the Compose-key! (which is important to have!)
@mntmn I wish I knew about that a long time ago. I've gotten so used to the macOS keybinding for umlauts (alt+u, a => ä etc) that I even set it up like that on Windows
@mntmn Not a fan of it. Using this keymap for my native Polish is unnecessarily cumbersome. And still idea of character combining as implemented in Linux, is easier to remember. When I need to write ö, I simply press ScrLock (my choice for combination introducer), then "o" then doublequote. Similarly é is ScrLock, then "e", then apostrophe, and so on.
@rastport @mntmn Good points, I agree. It seems the EU keymap also lacks Hungarian double accented vowels Ű/ű and Ő/ő, these are probably available with character composing, but then why not just use composing in the first place for everything? I tend to do that with US-Intl on Mac already. It is a much more "natural" experience of writing Hungarian, than remembering yet another keymap layout. (Because this EU keymap otherwise totally mismatches the national Hungarian keymap of course.)
@mntmn I had no idea that was a thing either.
I fear my muscle memory for the Danish letters æ,ø,å would be too hard to untrain, keeping me from changing...
@borup @mntmn When I'm on a 103-key or reduced equivalent I use fi layout, but when I'm on a 102-key equivalent it's a pain to switch between fi and us to do Swedish and programming (or just shell) and then it's a blessing to have the EurKey layout.
I adjusted to the new layout within a few days, no biggie.
@mntmn ANSI über alles