On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 03:22:37 +0800 Phake Nick via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> >I found the Windows 'US International' keyboard layout highly > >intuitive for accented Latin-1 characters. > How common is the US International keyboard in real life..? I thought it was two copies per new Windows PC - one for 32- and the other for 64-bit code. I was talking about the *layout*. The apostrophe, quote, grave and circumflex on the usual US keyboard are good enough labels for the acute, unlaut, grave and circumflex dead keys. (Now, 'æ' is a problem.) > Users would still need to manually add them in Windows, or in other > computing tools vendors would need to add support for "US > International" before they can be used Select them, you mean. It's only a problem if the computer's owner has stopped users from selecting keyboards. I thought Windows penetration was better than 50%. > How about, for example, a random tourist looking for info of random > Kazakhstan city? Will they know how to type umlaut in a city's name? > Most likely they'll simply type it without any umlaut and lost the > distinction Possibly. From a US* keyboard on a PC in England, I enter "Munchen" in a Google search and get entries for München. I even get a reply panel headed "Things to do in Munich". The English Wikipedia redirects me from Munchen to Munich. Umlaut is simply not a problem. Richard. *Technically, it's a Thai keyboard, for when I type Tai Tham. I have trouble remembering where each digit key is.