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celsoazevedo • yesterday at 8:31 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

I don't think it's a UTF-8 problem. It's just that most people don't have "Å" on their keyboard.

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mdp2021 • today at 10:26 AM

> most people don't have

Many people don't know.

  cat /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose | grep Å

  <dead_abovering> <A>       : "Å"   Aring # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
  <Multi_key> <o> <A>        : "Å"   Aring # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
  <Multi_key> <asterisk> <A> : "Å"   Aring # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
  <Multi_key> <A> <asterisk> : "Å"   Aring # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
  <Multi_key> <A> <A>        : "Å"   Aring # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
agumonkey • yesterday at 9:48 PM

tips in linux, remap altgr to compose and enjoy glyphs

xdennis • today at 12:44 AM

Most people don’t have “é” on their keyboard, yet they still spell “fiancée”.

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fastball • yesterday at 9:57 PM

On mac this is just Opt + A