Scandinavian characters on American keyboard
I love my American keyboard. But how can I use it and still spell names such as Häkkinen and Jönsson correctly. Even more I would love to spell Swedish words such as "höra" correctly. Just skipping the dots looks so ugly.
There are probably many solutions to this problem. Here follows one, in which Scandinavian letters such as å, ä, ö, æ, ø (as well as é, è, and ë) are mapped on the number pad. If you simply want to switch between American and Swedish mapping see Simpler version below.
We toggle the keyboard between two modes: normal and Scandinavian. There is a file in the repository called xmodmaptoggle. Copy the file to your home directory
cp /path/to/zanzibar/misc/xmodmaptoggle ~/.xmodmaptoggle
and then you can simply toggle the keyboard mode by
xmodmap -pke | awk -f ~/.xmodmaptoggle | xmodmap -
or create an alias, e.g., in file '.alias
'
echo "alias keytoggle=\"xmodmap -pke | awk -f ~/.xmodmaptoggle | xmodmap - \"" >> .alias
and you can simply issue 'keytoggle
'.
Simpler version
If you want a Swedish keyboard issue
setxkbmap se
in a terminal. If you instead fancy an American version you issue
setxkbmap us
It's as simple as that.