[Python-Dev] [python-committers] Welcome the 3.8 and 3.9 Release Manager - Łukasz Langa!

[Elvis Pranskevichus]

And on Linux (X11) there's a compose key [1]

Compose + / + L = Ł

You have to map Compose first, as it's not a physical 
button on modern keyboards:

setxkbmap -option compose:ralt

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Keyboard_configuration_in_Xorg#Configuring_compose_key


                                Elvis


On Saturday, January 27, 2018 5:38:47 PM EST Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Cool trick! Works on Sierra too. I guess it's all part of Apple's
> drive to merge iOS and OS X...
> 
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 2:12 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> > On Jan 27, 2018, at 17:04, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Hardly a surprising choice! Congrats, Łukasz. (And never forget that
> > at every Mac OS X upgrade I have to install the extended keyboard
> > just so I can type that darn Ł. :-)
> > 
> > 
> > Heh, I *just* learned that, at least on macOS High Sierra (and
> > probably going back several releases), on a US keyboard you can
> > press and hold the ‘L’ (cap-L) key.  A little popup will appear
> > like the attached image (if this doesn’t get stripped by Mailman). 
> > Hit ‘1’ and the slashy-L will get entered: Ł.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > -Barry