Today I learned that Canadian English has the letter é as in resumé.
@XerTheSquirrel Doesn’t American English? I mean, I don't think anyone would shoot a EN-US writer for omitting accent marks, but there’s a big difference between ‘expose’ and ‘exposé.’
@drifa The accents are kinda optional here, like the standard US QWERTY keyboard you cannot type any of this stuff so.
@drifa Are you using the numeric pad to type in all the unicode characters for these?
@XerTheSquirrel No. I use a Mac for most stuff, so Å is shift-option-a, for example.
For Windows and GNU/Linux boxes, the best option seems to be shifting to the "international" versions of the keyboard maps. That gives you a composition mode: <rightalt>+' then e yields é, for example.
@drifa Ah, I just use Windows 10 and it cannot enter that by default. I think the next version of Windows is going to allow you to enter these characters by using the WinKey+. but not just for emoji.
@XerTheSquirrel The international keyboard map is built into Windows 10, it's just not enabled by default.
@XerTheSquirrel I write in EN-US for publication, and while I’d agree in the case of a lot of words, I still generally think it’s not optional in the case of foreign loanwords and proper names. ‘El Niño,’ not ‘El Nino,’ for example. ‘Åland,’ not ‘Aland.’ (Conflating the latter two just leads non-native speakers to entirely the wrong pronunciation.)
And I’m writing all of this on a US-layout keyboard. My fingers just learned over time where all of the magic Vulcan Nerve Pinches are.