Can’t run Windows 11? Don’t want to? There are surprisingly legal options

  • taladar@sh.itjust.works
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    9 hours ago

    You might need to switch to a keyboard layout with or without dead keys depending on your preference. Not quite sure how Windows does it these days other than some vague nightmares about the layout switcher thing in the task bar from a few years ago that kept switching back semi-randomly when switching applications. Some of the changes in how accents are typed are actually related to using accented characters less than the characters on their own (e.g. backticks) but others might also be related to making things easier for people with disabilities that prevent them from pressing certain key combinations.

    • Humanius@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      The issue I’m talking about is unrelated to keyboard layouts. It’s how deadkeys are implemented.

      The deadkeys are seemingly defined separately from keyboard layout, and there is no way that I could find to redefine them other than either turning dead key behaviour on or off in the keyboard layouts