How to type "iodé" on desktop keyboard

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The secret is the Alt Gr (Alt Graphic) key.

In our case it’s just Alt Gr + E.

E.g. Alt Gr + ,/< will type “ç”.

Alt Gr combined,

  1. with letter keys types accented letters.

  2. with symbol keys types either the rest of the symbols depicted on the key or other special characters.

  3. with the horizontal numeric keys or some symbol keys types a pending accent that will be placed on the next letter you’ll type if the combination exists.

You can also use

Shift + Alt Gr + key

for capitalisation of characters or for even more special characters.

Memorising those combinations you’ll rarely need to change the keyboard layout or deploy more complicated ways to insert special characters in text editors, just test it on your keyboard and note down the important combinations or those that you can’t remember easily.

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On Linux with KDE for é on normal keyboard I just do
Right Alt then ' then e
to get é. So thats another way (and you can do it one handed)…
:wink:

See below - some useful tables for those not familiar:

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I’m on Gnome, the right Alt(Alt Gr) is selected as an alternate character key but it offers a compose key too which probably can type the whole Unicode.

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Use a browser and search iode.

Go to iode site.

highlight the word iodé and press ctrl-c.

Return to where you want to use the word iodé and hit ctrl-v.

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I write it on Android and I send it through email to the computer.