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23 days ago- assuming you are allowed to change things on the computer (ie. not work or library computer):
- change keyboard firmware back to QWERTY
- change OS English keyboard input to Colemak-DH (or Colemak-DH-Ortho)
- for Unicode characters, it is possible but fiddly through keyboard firmware, usually easier to use whichever method the OS uses – and generally through QMK directly rather than through VIAL
- Linux, one of:
- ComposeKey plus compose sequence – Compose, --. will give you en-dash –
- DeadKey, accent, char (similar to Option key on Mac or setting keyboard to “US International”)
- Ctrl-Shift-U then Unicode codepoint – Ctrl-Shift-U, 1F517, space gives you 🔗
- in VIAL, you can set up macros to send the right sequence, but you’ll have to have one macro for Linux and a different macro for Windows
- Typing non-English letters
- Linux, one of:
another case of “lesser evil”