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A US-layout-based keyboard layout for German.
Only macOS is supported now.
If you come to Germany from a country, where the primary latin keyboard layout is a version of an English layout (e.g., US Intl. or UK), you know the pain of trying to use the infamous ‘T1-Belegung’. Shifted parentheses, Y-Z swap, weird placement of brackets. It becomes a nightmare, when you try to write code on these.
DeUs-Layout is my solution — it's the US Layout with replaced symbols, relevant to Germans and Germany residents (such as umlauts, Eszett and Euro sign).
- German-related
- German umlauts (äöü) can be typed using (⇧ Shift+)⌥ Option+a/o/u
- Eszett (ß) is left at ⌥ Option+s, but its capital version (ẞ) is now at ⇧ Shift+⌥ Option+s
- Euro sign (€) is now at ⌥ Option+e
- acute accent (´) moved to ⌥ Option+h
- opening and closing quotation marks swapped to match the German rules
- accesible at (⇧ Shift+)⌥ Option+[/]/\
- Consistency-related
- Capital delta (∆) moved to ⇧ Shift+⌥ Option+d
- Lowercase O with circumflex (ô) was added to ⌥ Option+j
- Download the ZIP archive from the latest release page.
- Unzip the file.
- Go to
macfolder and executeinstall, either by double-clicking it or by running./mac/installin Terminal- alternatively, take the file
mac/DeUs-Layout.bundleand put it in/Library/Keyboard Layouts.
- alternatively, take the file
- Select the new layout in the settings. It is under "German" category and is called "German (DeUs)".
- depending on your OS locale, it may be called "DeUs, deutsch" or "Немецкий (DeUs)".
- You can remove your old English/German layout now if you will. If the button is greyed out, try to add a Japanese layout, remove the English/German layout, and then remove the Japanese one.
- Log out and log back in for good measure.
Inspired by @tonsky's Universal-Layout. I am also using modified build scripts of his.
The keyboard layout was done with help of Ukelele.
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