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[–] 37 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

Fun, but I don't love the Polish word selection because a lot of these are supposed to contain special characters and they're not actual real Polish words without them.

Like blad - that's not a word. Błąd is a word, it means a mistake. So does this count or no? Or kal vs kał, one is a word (means feces) and one is just some letters.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Out of curiosity, if an average person were to type it in all caps on their computer, would they be able to easily type the diacritics?

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

    In Poland we use standard qwerty keyboards with Polish keyboard layout set (called Polish Programmers), you press alt+character to get the special version (like alt+s gives you ś, alt+a gives you ą and so on, the only nonintuitive one is alt+x which is ź, because alt+z is taken by ż). Combine with shift or caps lock for capital versions. No issues.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Neat. I wish the French had something similar!

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Can do it with the compose key if you're on *nix, and here's an implementation for Windows.

    + e + ^ = ê, and + shift + E + " = Ë, etc.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Or you can use a French keyboard layout, type ` followed by a to get à, same with â, ä, or ç. É has its own key, since it's more common and the only letter that uses the acute accent. No more complicated than key combinations, and easier hand positions than 3-key combinations, really.

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