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submitted 11 months ago by Slinky5737@infosec.pub to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

For example, English speakers commonly mix up your/you're or there/their/they're. I'm curious about similar mistakes in other languages.

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[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

For people on Linux, hit [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[u] then type [0] [0] [f] [1]. That will enter an ñ when you hit the next key.

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

For people on Linux, enable the compose key in your keyboard settings and then type [Compose] [n] [~].

The compose-key method for entering accented letters is by far the easiest to use for any desktop OS ... but it's not enabled by default because you have to give up some modifier key to use it.

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago

It's completely off-topic but Compose is amazing. Specially as you can actually customise it for your usage, with a .XCompose file. For me it's the only think that makes phonetic transcription flow, otherwise you got to shift layouts back and forth to write something like "[tɾɐ̃skɾi'sɜ̃ʊ̯] ⟨transcrição⟩".

Here's mine, if anyone is interested.

[-] Evkob@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

Based solely off this comment, I just wanna say you seem like such a cool person. Anyone who has a custom file on their OS to facilitate using IPA characters is good people in my book.

[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

ñ...woah! I just tried it by switching the [Menu] key to a compose key. That's so much easier. Thanks for sharing 🙂

[-] randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 points 11 months ago

I never knew that there was such a key! Thank you! It's really useful.

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