• blackn1ght@feddit.uk
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        4 months ago

        No that’s new to me too, based off me searching the word and seeing the Wiki article on the toy. I’d seen the word because of one of the instances (blahaj zone), but I literally never see the word outside of Lemmy.

        • 30p87@feddit.de
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          4 months ago

          Because you would need to know the code for å in all kb layouts, on all OS’s, even in a bare terminal with no way to just open the emoji picker, with or without special keys and no clipboard. Of course, tab completion or globs may help you, but not in all cases.

          Try to select blåhaj.txt in a dir with blåhaj.txt and blahaj.txt present. Easy, ls blhaj.txt | grep -i blahaj.txt. Now with blåhaj.txt and bløhaj.txt. Not as easy anymore, but doable with tail -n1 or head -n1. Now do it consistently in a script. So you again need to single out the right string, or single char, and >> it into the script so you have the special char. Then you have a component that does not like certain special chars, so you need to escape it. All because one decided to use special chars as a file name/identifier. Using [a-zA-Z0-9-_.:;,] would be so easy.

          • darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            4 months ago

            Because you would need to know the code for å in all kb layouts, on all OS’s,

            WTF!? Why would you ever need to know that!?

            • 30p87@feddit.de
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              4 months ago

              So, you create a file with the name containing å. Then you send it to another person. They want to handle it via the command line. Because it’s more efficient. So that person needs to know said information.

              • darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                4 months ago

                Most people never type a full file name on the command line, they normally just use file name completion.

                And if they happen to have a lot of files that are only distinguished by some single character, what would be so difficult about typing that one character then?

                • Lucy :3@feddit.orgEnglish
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                  3 months ago

                  The fact they couldn’t type that one character, on the command line, without those special chars.

      • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Hold the Combine key (Linux-only, user-configurable, usually RCtrl) and press “a” twice. Or Combine+a+*.

        Or get a laptop with a numpad. I am so used to Alt+num that I’d donate to someone to implement it in the Linux libinput, and I’m not alone.

      • sparkle@lemm.eeCymraeg
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        4 months ago

        US international layout, or make a custom layout (KbdEdit is multiplatform but there’s free Linux programs to do it too)

      • thehatfox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Depends on your computing platform.

        I see another reply has already covered Linux.

        On a Mac, press and hold a character key and a list of accent characters will appear. There are also dead key combinations using the option key to enter special characters directly.

        • andioop@programming.devEnglish
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          4 months ago

          If you’re like me and wondered what a dead key is…

          A dead key is a special kind of modifier key on a mechanical typewriter, or computer keyboard, that is typically used to attach a specific diacritic to a base letter.[1] The dead key does not generate a (complete) character by itself, but modifies the character generated by the key struck immediately after.

          —Wikipedia

      • bob_lemon@feddit.org
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        4 months ago

        On Windows, you can open the emoji picker with Win+. or Win+, (depending on locale iirc). Then just switch to the symbols tab by clicking the omega symbol and chose å

        Alternatively, you can install PowerToys, which includes a quick accentuator tool.

          • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
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            4 months ago

            charmap.exe? Holy shit. Windows 95 called, but I didn’t have a 33.6k modem ready to answer.

            • tiredofsametab@kbin.run
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              4 months ago

              I mostly just had the alt+whatever codes memorized when I was typing French or German, but I didn’t always have a numpad when I was using laptops away from home. I just ended up using charmap and never realized newer windows had any replacement (although I’m on mac for work and also use linux for both work and some home stuff now as well so not spending as much time in Windows).