Windows – German characters on US-International keyboard layout

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I'm used to a German keyboard layout, but want to try using a US-International keyboard to simplify programming.

On Windows 10 I can enter German umlauts (äöü) using the US-International layout (for the normal US layout this does not work) by pressing " followed by aou, but how to enter the ß (sharp s)? "s does not work. I want to avoid switching to the German layout or using Alt-sequences.

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AltGr+s. You could get help in Windows Keyboard Layouts, in particular at United States-International (with AltGr pressed):

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As suggested by harrymc i'm using an AutoHotKey script right now

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i'm still trying to get the auto-run feature of RD working, so it automatically starts the program upon connecting.

Might not be the most elegant solution to this problem, but at least it works and i can easily change the script

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I ran into a somewhat similar problem with the US-International layout. I am using it to type some non-ASCII characters that are available through AltGr combinations (such as ö and ä) but want to keep the default behaviour of other keys, in particular the ' and " keys.

I made a GitHub repository holding a layout that does that. The layout file (direct link) can be opened in Microsoft's Keyboard Layout Creator tool (free as in beer), and built with it. Running the resulting installer adds the new layout to Windows where it can be used exactly like the builtin layouts.

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