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And here I was wondering for ages now, who in his right mind would have chosen the incredibly cumbersome to type triple backticks combo as delimiters for code sections in markdown...
And now this article just told me that the backtick is just another normal key outside of Germany...
But serious question: How do you type characters with the back accent above them? Or you just don't?
I simply made my own keyboard layout. Accent grave is just a single press for me, altgr+accent is the "normal" combining one. Also changed äö to () and shift+äö to [].
It's not that hard, it's just a markup file I had to copy+modify and put in some folder.
Legit possible solution.
But I normally omit changing the behaviour of the standard keyboard as it will bite me the moment that I am not on my own computer.
Only exception:
I use a similar approach to disable the Tab-Key (and in one case, on a machine with a stripped down keyboard missing the "Pos1" and "End" keys, use Tab and Shift-Tab to emulate these).
Meh, how often do you really do some serious work where you're not on your own hardware? Depends on your job I guess, if you're company tech support and walk around to people's PCs the whole time, but if you're a programmer or similar, when are you really not going to do your work on your PC?
It's not like you can't work with a default layout afterwards, you're just going to be a bit slower on one. It really didn't happen very often for me in years of working.
As a SW dev in a predev lab / tech demonstration environment: Unfortunately much more often than you would perhaps think...