The German alphabet has a new official letter the capital ẞ (U+1E9E)
getreu opened this issue · 6 comments
The German alphabet has a new official letter the capital ẞ (U+1E9E) for some years now.
In EurKey 1.3 beta it is mapped to AltGr-Shift-s. I suggest doing so here also.
As for now, the capital ẞ (u+1e9e) is available via the dead key AltGr+' then AltGr+s (and AltGr+Shift+8 then AltGr+s).
Some other characters (maybe even more frequently used in German) are also available via a dead key, like „ (u+201e: double low-9 quotation mark) and ‚ (u+201a: single low-9 quotation mark).
At this moment, I consider this rather a German-specific 'all caps' issue where 'Caps Lock' on and AltGr+s does not exactly work for German.
So I should think out whether the 'section sign' (§, u+00a7) should be moved to e.g. a dead key or have its place somewhere else, keeping in mind the importance of all letters/symbols...
Maybe the § could be moved to [AltGr] + [\] (this is where the ¬ symbol is now)?
or
to [AltGr] + [Shift] + [\] (this is where the ¦ symbol is)
BTW:
US Colemak uses: [AltGr]+[\] [s]
Actually, I think we probably should use [AltGr] + [\] for an additional dead key more urgently:
For example how can one compose: Ķ ķ Ļ ļ Ņ ņ Ģ ģ (in Latvian)
or ą ę ė (one dot) į ų (in Lithuanian)
or Ş ş (in Turkish)?
And there are things like the widely used dotless ı Dotless I - Wikipedia. Not an easy task!
Well, all those letters with cedilla, ogonek, dot above, and dotless ı have already been implemented (as I believe...).
Documentation : https://pieter-degroote.github.io/UltimateKEYS/documentation.html
Indeed, letters for Western Europe are usually directly available on the main layout, whereas those for Eastern Europe and other parts of the world (with Latin alphabets) are rather found on the dead keys.
In case you like so, please do fork this work, and enjoy... !
Please also check out the latest test (in AutoHotkey, overlay for US QWERTY) at :
This change (capital Eszett, ẞ) has now been published in the latest releases of UltimateKEYS :
Official release :
Testing release :
