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Just FYI his name is Linus (just like Linus Torvalds). It's a common name for Swedes (Torvalds in from the Swedish minority in Finland).

The Linux name is a play on Linus' name.

The Å in Åkesson can be typed on a US keyboard by hitting alt+a. To make ä & ö you'd hit `alt+u a` and `alt+u o`. To make a ø, which is the Norwegian/Danish way to say ö, you type `alt-o`.

EDIT: the keyboard things are on a US layout on a Mac. For a standard keyboard it might be the same, or not. I don't know...

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>Torvalds in from the Swedish minority in Finland

Torvalds is from the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland.

At least in Swedish they are called "Finlandssvenskar", which means Finland-swedes. That is why I count them as Swedes just like the Swedes living in Sweden, Norway, Denmark or anywhere else.

Windows alt-codes -- Hold down alt, then hit the number combination on the num-pad, then release alt:

From http://fsymbols.com/keyboard/windows/alt-codes/list/

If you're on a Mac and need to write an unfamiliar accent, then by far the easiest is to just hold down the keyboard key of the base letter (or in this case shift + 'a' since its a capital letter) and then select the appropriate accent from the list - just like you can on iOS.

"easiest is to just hold down the keyboard key of the base letter"

Does this mean that you can't hold down a key to produce multiple copies of the same letter?

You can disable it - I've got it disabled on mine. I don't remember how, though. There are no obvious options in the System Preferences. I wonder if it's buried somewhere in Karabiner (formerly KeyRemap4Macbook).

yes for space and tab. no for letters. in practice, I've never actually needed typematic repetition of letters, so it's a reasonable tradeoff IMO.

The alt combinations do not work on Windows, and I believe they don't on most (all?) Linuxes either.

On my phone or I'd provide the equivalents.

That was autocomplete on my phone...

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