[Python-Dev] [python-committers] Welcome the 3.8 and 3.9 Release Manager (original) (raw)

Elvis Pranskevichus elprans at gmail.com
Sat Jan 27 18:10:51 EST 2018

And on Linux (X11) there's a compose key [1]

Compose + / + L = Ł

You have to map Compose first, as it's not a physical button on modern keyboards:

setxkbmap -option compose:ralt

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Keyboard_configuration_in_Xorg#Configuring_compose_key

                            Elvis

On Saturday, January 27, 2018 5:38:47 PM EST Guido van Rossum wrote:

Cool trick! Works on Sierra too. I guess it's all part of Apple's drive to merge iOS and OS X...

On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 2:12 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote: > On Jan 27, 2018, at 17:04, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> > wrote: > > > Hardly a surprising choice! Congrats, Łukasz. (And never forget that > at every Mac OS X upgrade I have to install the extended keyboard > just so I can type that darn Ł. :-) > > > Heh, I just learned that, at least on macOS High Sierra (and > probably going back several releases), on a US keyboard you can > press and hold the ‘L’ (cap-L) key. A little popup will appear > like the attached image (if this doesn’t get stripped by Mailman). > Hit ‘1’ and the slashy-L will get entered: Ł. > > Cheers > -Barry

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