Dvorak international layout for Windows XP
Aron van Ammers <[email protected]>
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Hi all, As far as I could find out this link was never posted to the list before: http://keyboards.jargon-file.org/ There are many keyboard drivers on there for different flavours of Dvorak, and other layouts. I especially like the "United States-Dvorak International Alternate", because: - it allows me to easily type every wéïrd chãraçtEURr I would desire - it doesn't, like the default "US International" layout, make <'>, <">, <`> and so on into dead keys. The problem with that is that trying to type "e" including the quotes like this: <">, <e>, <"> would produce this: ë". Very annoying, especially when programming because you're writing quoted strings all the time. The workaround for that would be <">, <space>, <e>, <">, but that requires you to think about it every time you type a special character. The alternate layout requires you to use the right Alt or Alt Gr key with the modifying character, which is just as easy. And just typing a <"> directly produces a " like it should. - it's Dvorak AND international. I used to switch back and forth to "US international" to type a special character, thereby having to switch my mind to Qwerty and back to Dvorak again. But not no more! Effectively this, together with mapping caps lock to backspace <http://www.usnetizen.com/fix_capslock.html>, has made my typing life on the Windows platform perfect :) Cheers, Aron [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]