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Originally Posted by Quoth
Altgr e on Linux or Windows is é
`key beside 1 is a modifier. It is not a single quote, like ‘, so ` e gives è, similarly à ì ò ù ỳ.
I think Windows International layouts can have keys like this, called dead keys. There is zero reason for the ` key to directly type as that glyph is ONLY an accent. I suspect Windows US International works like UK Linux with AltGr and "dead keys".
Scottish Gaelic sì is kind of fairy, like Tolkien's Elves. In Irish Gaelic it's side or sí, all three are pronounced Shee. Original Irish orthography has no dot on an i so as in handwriting it's not mistaken for í. Very few fonts have that and the Turkish dotless i is the wrong character.
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One option might be to have a set of dead keys where the rules are: (1) the dead key must be typed after the letter it is modifying, (2) as soon as you type a space after typing the dead key, the dead key symbol fuses with the previous letter to create the letter that you actually want. To bring up the dead keys you would tap a Function key which would bring up a display of all of the appropriate dead keys, depending on the letter you have typed. As an example, you'd type "a" and then the dead key for the umlat symbol to get ä.