Marcel Schneider <charupdate at orange dot fr> wrote: > A free tool, the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator, allows every user > to add U+02BC on his preferred keyboard layout
I use John Cowan's Moby Latin keyboard, built with MSKLC, which is 100% compatible with the AltGr-less US keyboard and supports almost 900 other characters, including all of the apostrophes and quotes and dashes and other characters under discussion: http://recycledknowledge.blogspot.com/2013/09/us-moby-latin-keyboard-for-windows.html I spent years designing and updating my own keyboard layout and studying other layouts. I've ended this quest since I started using Moby Latin; it's the best I've seen in numerous ways. Elsewhere: > ISO stands for stability We wish. Several of us on this list have worked on standards and standard-like activities that correct for, and defend against, instability in ISO standards. > Microsoft’s choice of mashing up apostrophe and close-quote to end up > with an unprocessable hybrid was wrong. Very wrong. Windows-1252 and the other Windows code pages were developed during the 1980s, before Unicode, when almost all non-Asian character sets were limited to 256 code points. The distinctions between apostrophe and right-single-quote, weighed against the confusion caused by encoding two identical-looking characters, would never have been sufficient back then to justify separate encoding in this limited space. -- Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO 🇺🇸