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Post #643171

2026-03-13 18:41 UTC

I added diacritics support to Plasma Keyboard! https://merritt.codes/blog/2026/03/13/2026/_plasma-keyboard-funding-diacritics Now I can more easily write German words as I continue learning it, such as: über, schön, and Straße! Also, I can sprinkle my lovely symbols in my writing without having to resort to the compose key or copy-pasting — isn't that great‽ 😁 #kde #plasma #linux #diacritics

Replies (7)

  • @hazelnot@sunbeam.city 2026-03-13 19:05

    @Merritt@mastodon.social oh damn, I didn't know you could even have this kind of functionality as a flatpak! This is very cool, I'll check it out!

    Open ##2810155

  • @Merritt@mastodon.social I never knew I needed this but now that I do I cannot wait. Super cool stuff!

    Open ##2810156

  • @Beurt@mamot.fr 2026-03-13 19:21

    @Merritt@mastodon.social Nice! Side question: what are you using to show the key pressed? I was using the amazing keymon, but it is not working anymore.

    Open ##2810157

  • @fell@ma.fellr.net 2026-03-14 01:12

    @Merritt@mastodon.social But can it type the elusive uppercase ß? How else are you going to yell "SCHEIẞE!!"? (just kidding, nobody actually uses that character because standard German keyboards can't type it easily)

    Open ##2810160

  • @Merritt@mastodon.social That's wunderbar! 😀

    Open ##2810164

  • @somuras@mastodon.world 2026-03-14 09:21

    @Merritt@mastodon.social I did this for Spanish, to be able to have accents in vowels like á, é, í, ó, ú and to add support for ñ. It was actually much easier to do than I originally thought expected. I kinda wish there was a way to make it more public for people who want to have Spanish typing in an English keyboard. 🤔

    Open ##2810165

  • @bogdanbiv@mastodon.social 2026-03-16 15:44

    @Merritt@mastodon.social this is why I support Merrittocracy! Would it be possible for an app to expose to plasma-keyboard a limited set of valid characters for the current focused field (numeric for phone number input, alphanumeric + some special chars for email addresses & domain names)? Could I use this as emoji / unicode input? Favorite chars/ charsets?

    Open ##2810166