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The one area where I actually prefer using my phone over Windows (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 year ago by doublepepperoni@hexbear.net to c/technology@lemmy.ml
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When I want to type a special non-English character like Ø, on my Android phone I simply long press on "o" on the keyboard and it brings up every variation of the letter o you could think of.

On Windows, the best you get is "please memorise this giant list of four number codes". If I'm going to have to google the code I'm probably just going to copy the letter and paste it into whatever I'm writing.

Why not add them to the damn emoji menu (Windows key + .)

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[–] Buttermilk@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Does Windows not have a compose key?

[–] amio@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

It does not. A "native" but unappealing way is to use charmap and/or memorize a bunch of (highly arbitrary) "alt codes": 0176 while holding alt makes °, for example. Mostly if you need a bunch of special characters, you use the "appropriate" keyboard or some third-party workaround.

[–] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago

Just press the Windows button and the period at the same time