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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon rkkr

German QWERTZ layout missing (option) to constantly show Umlaute (äöüß)

Open ctshh opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

The german QWERTZ keyboard shows the Umlaute ÄÖÜß/äöüß constantly*. The "Deutsch (QWERTZ)" setting should also reflect this (example from iOS).

*) A capital ß (ẞ) does exist, yet this is not reflected on any keyboard I know nor is it used anywhere, lacking words that start with a capital ß.

(And, of course: thanks for this great piece of unobtrusive, nicely working piece of software! :)

ctshh avatar Feb 23 '21 14:02 ctshh

Yes. The german layout in this program is wrong. I think the swiss layout is pretty much what we need for the german layout. The wikipedia page shows how the ö ä ü keys are part of the standard layout.

grafik (Tastaturbelegung T1) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tastaturbelegung#Deutschland

Sogolumbo avatar Apr 07 '22 13:04 Sogolumbo

The capital letter for ß is ẞ (U+1E9E) (not SS, even if it's often used that way because the capital ß is pretty new and not widely supported yet).

It seems to me like the java string library is wrong here: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-4901305

Sogolumbo avatar Apr 07 '22 14:04 Sogolumbo