I'm a Linux user, using Ubuntu for few years. Recently I bought a Macbook and I'm trying to understand how to set up my Romanian language layout.
My mac has a Romanian keyboard, but since I am a programmer I want to use all the characters (including [
, ]
, {
etc). Currently if I set up the keyboard layout to be Romanian on my macbook, if I press [ I get ă
, which is expected, but it's not something I'm used to.
I would like to use AltGr + a to get the Romanian diacritic letter that looks like a
, but is ă
and when pressing [ to get [
.
In fact, I need the following combinations:
- AltGr + a =>
ă
- AltGr + q =>
â
- AltGr + i =>
î
- AltGr + s =>
ș
- AltGr + t =>
ț
- AltGr + Shift + a =>
Ă
- AltGr + Shift + - => long dash
How to set up this?
On Ubuntu this was activated as default thing. I read a little bit how to do it on OS X and found that Ukelele could help. Isn't there a more native way (e.g. just importing a preset keyboard layout)?
Best Answer
The "native" way in OS X would be to use the US (ABC) Extended layout provided by Apple. It lets you make the necessary characters via alt/option shortcuts. For a list see
http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/accents/codemacext.html
For the shortcut set you specified, Ukelele or Karabiner is what would normally be used.
Some alternative Romanian layouts made with Ukelele can be found at
http://www.unibuc.ro/e/prof/paliga_v_s/soft-reso/