spawnia / backtick

A programmer friendly German keyboard layout that allows typing single backticks

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backtick

A programmer friendly German keyboard layout for Windows that allows typing single backticks

Inspired by https://zauner.nllk.net/post/0014-windows-no-dead-keys/

Install

You can either download a pre-built setup package from the release page or build it yourself.

Execute the setup.exe from the setup package (requires admin priviliges) to install the keyboard layout on your system.

Open up the Windows control panel and choose Change input methods -> Change your language preferences -> Options

In the Language options dialog add the new keyboard layout, by default it is called German (Programmer), allow single backticks.

Build

To build or edit the keyboard, you need the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator 1.4

Clone this repository and open up backtick.klc.

Click Project -> Build DLL and Setup Package.

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A programmer friendly German keyboard layout that allows typing single backticks