Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

This might already be something you personally know - but I feel it's a great opportunity to bring it up and hopefully teach others.

Right alt can be used for non-english symbols.

Some examples from keyboard mashing while holding right alt: ¡²³¤€¼áðäéå®þæ©ñ

For the most part they are in sensible positions too, making them easy to remember. Right alt+2 is ² and n becomes ñ and s becomes the German ß. © is c and ® is r.

Optionally you can set your keyboard to use English - International to type Pokémon properly. Or português. Although it can get annoying trying to type an opening quote " because you need to press space afterwards (it's waiting for the following character to modify: ä)




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: