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Etherytelast Tuesday at 9:25 PM2 repliesview on HN

That's one aspect I really love about macOS. I'm from a small country so nearly no one makes hardware with our exact layout, but with macOS I can always just long press to fill in the gaps. I just wish all apps used native inputs, not some weird half-baked solution they built themselves.


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Rendellolast Tuesday at 11:44 PM

I rarely miss Linux, but I liked being able to have compose keys, most of which were very logical and fast to type. Now on MacOS, I either have to know the option (alt) combination or long press, which makes my writing with accents way slower.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key

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lostloginlast Tuesday at 11:03 PM

> I just wish all apps used native inputs, not some weird half-baked solution they built themselves.

I find this often with apps and websites, and I speak/write British English (or attempt to).

Why effort is put into making a worse interface is baffling.

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