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I'm on an Italian keyboard. Accessing ` and ~ is so frustrating (I have to enter Alt + 9 + 6 and Alt + 1 + 2 + 6), but I also have a useless § key (Shift + ù). I'd like to "add a layer" to the \ key, so pressing AltGr + \ will produce ~ and AltGr + ' will make `.

Another nice thing to add is support for dead keys. I'd like to have a single pressure to behave as usual and (AltGr + Shift) + pressure let it behave as a dead key.

So to add e', I just enter e + '. To enter é, I enter AltGr + Shift + ' and then E.

What is the solution?

*Note: switching to IT-104 is not an option, as it remaps ~ to ], so I'll gain the gliphs, but at the cost of losing another that was well memorized.

Giacomo1968
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DDS
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If you don’t mind doing e.g., '+e for é (just the reverse of what you suggest above), then you can set your keyboard to US-International. That will make ~, ', ", ` and ^ into dual-use dead keys, where if you follow any of them with a character than can carry the accent (usually a vowel, but also N for ~ (Ñ) and C for ' (Ç)), you’ll get the accented character. If you want the punctuation only, follow the accent with a space - that is, `+      will give you `.

Jeff Zeitlin
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