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I was looking at the keys and I realised that there are so many keys I don't have in my typewriters with Spanish sets. I don't have @ signs nor * and I'd love to have them.
Some of them don't even have the + sign, I have to combine : and -
The @ symbol is missing from French keyboards too, just like fractions. We need space for our accents!
I noticed that some Spanish keyboards missing the circumflex it can be done by combining the two accents. Are there French keyboards like that?
I never saw that. Generally, à, è and é are directly present on the keyboard, not the accents as dead keys. ^ and ¨ are dead keys, though.
Oh! I've never have guessed!
Wait! I just realised that it is only the machine I regularly use, it only has one dead key! The rest of them have two.
How it is possible that I've never had to type ü?
Because you never typed in Volapük 😅