Apple Danish Keyboard Layout

1. Apple Danish Keyboard Layout Keyboard
2. How To Use Danish Keyboard

I live in Denmark, and because I am learning Danish I often have to type the Danish characters æ, ø and å. Since I still have a US keyboard, this is not easy. At least on windows. I usually open the Character Map application and select the characters from there. Once you have inserted them in a text you can copy-paste them when you need them. This works, but it is a little cumbersome.

When you use a Windows (PC) keyboard on a Macintosh computer, the keyboard shortcuts that you use map to different keys. In particular, the primary key that is used in keyboard shortcuts in combination with other keys is frequently different. The following are the primary key substitutions on the Windows keyboard, and their Macintosh equivalents. You can use your computer keyboard or mouse to type Danish letters with this online keyboard. Photo pixel software, free download. Pressing Esc on the Danish keyboard layout will toggle the mouse input between virtual QWERTY keyboard and virtual Danish keyboard. The key will also turn on/off your keyboard input conversion. Pressing Esc on your keyboard has the same function. Press Shift or either Ctrl + Alt or AltGr for additional Danish.

Another option is to hold the Alt key and type the character's ASCII code on the NumPad, but that means remembering 6 rather random numbers. Here is a table, if you like:

Unfortunately, many laptops don't have a NumPad to save space. So not an option.

Apple Danish Keyboard Layout Keyboard

Luckily, there is a cool program from Microsoft called The Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator which you can use to create your own keyboard layouts, based on existing ones or from scratch.
I've used this to create a layout based on the US – English layout, adding Danish characters as ‘Dead Key' combinations. Dead keys are keys that combine with other keys to create another character. For those of you used to, for example, a NL – US int keyboard layout, if you press quote and then e, you get an é. When you just want a quote, you have to type quote + space. Personally, I find this extremely annoying, since I type a lot more quotes than é's.

For the US – Dansk layout, I've chosen to use the AltGr (right Alt) key as a dead key combinator. Apple os x 10 14. This is less annoying and even necessary because when you don't want to combine a+e into æ but just want an ‘a', you don't want to have to press a+space.

The result is that you have to press AltGr+a and then e to get an æ character. Here's a table for all Danish characters:

As you can see, the capitals can be created when either the first or the second character is typed as a capital, or both.

Because I can't upload zip or exe files, I can't provide a download link. I can, however, provide the text contents of the .klc file, which you can load into the MS Keyboard Creator. See below. If you want to have the generated setup package, I can mail it to you. Just leave a comment.

How To Use Danish Keyboard

I hope you find it as useful as I do. The sims apple.