"Johnny Andersson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> Those accents, such as ´`¨^~, if I want to type an à, I just press `,
> release it and then press a. Do you mean that this doesn't work
> everywhere? I know that keyboard for different countries work
> different, but do you mean that only Swedish keyboard (and maybe a few
> more) have the ´ ` ¨ ^ ~ keys? 
> 
> And when I switch to linux, will those keys stop work for me?
> 

No. Swedish keyboards do work perfectly well under Linux, so far as I know, 
which can have a very similar mechanism for changing between the layouts. 
The only real difficulty I have found is trying to type on a mac with a 
Windows keyboard through VNC (don't ask). 

It is true that, eg English keyboards don't have the specialised Swedish 
letters (nor the paragraph symbol) so you can't do that dead-key accent 
trick. But you can always change the keyboard layout in software, certainly 
under KDE and Windows so that either keyboard mimics the other. 

All this is easly enough tested with a live cd from knoppix or similar, 
which will run linux veeeeery slowly without disturbing your windows 
intallation at all. 




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