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Comment by neallindsay | Hacker News Reader

excellent use of a Punycode domain

I was going to disagree with you, because most kiwis have no idea how to write the special o (myself included), so they’d end up typing toreo.nz instead.

Which as it turns out, redirects to xn--treo-l3a.nz anyway.

Nice!

I'm a fan of MacOS for making it real easy to type vowels with umlauts / macrons etc.

Unfortunately the macron is the one missing dead-key accent on the US "ABC" layout. It's easy enough to hit the globe key when this comes up, but it annoys me a bit that Opt-y is ¥, and Shift-Opt-Y is Á, which is a duplicate: Opt-e-A will also produce it. I'd be happier if Opt-y was the macron dead key and Shift-Opt-Y took over for ¥: I can go a year without needing the Yen symbol, but it makes sense to have it. I don't think the English layout needs two ways to type Á though, it's excessive.

a proper ő is also missing unfortunately

I just hold down the vowel, then hit 9 for the macron.

The ō is an o with a macron. It's pretty easy to install a keyboard layout that supports it: https://kupu.maori.nz/about/macrons-keyboard-setup. Many mobile keyboards support it by default with long presses to pop up an accent/variant chooser.

> It's pretty easy to install a keyboard layout that supports it

Only if you don't need anything else from your keyboard layout. I use Dvorak and need to type Japanese, and I think either of those makes it impossible to enter macrons on Windows.

You can have multiple keyboard layouts installed, and it takes a fraction of a second to switch with a shortcut key (on Windows it's Win-space). I have a Māori keyboard layout installed on my work computer, but I only switch into it to type words with macrons, then switch back (I use ` more often and don't like having to double-press it).

Sure, but even if I switched back and forth, the keys would be in the wrong place (because you can only have a qwerty layout with macrons, right?). Somehow the model is wrong compared to Linux where I can do compose to get a macron on any "underlying" layout.

> kiwis have no idea how to write the special o (myself included)

I’m in New Zealand too. I work in MRI and have to type ‘TE’ (echo time) regularly, as well as the Māori word ‘te’.

Whatever secret sauce Apple sprinkles into iOS is actually malignant and it takes about 3 edits to type te/TE whenever I try.

Yeah, Apple's autocorrect implementation is shockingly bad. Android is much better in this regard.

I’m 2y into having an iPhone, generally liking it better but autocorrect alone keeps me on the edge of switching back to android, that’s how bad it is. It’s not even about comparing to android, it’s just that iOS is bad. If I had a bigger phone I’d turn it off entirely but on a mini it’s juuuust useful enough that it makes me want to throw my phone against the wall _less_ than if it was off.

I honestly want to have a coffee chat with the PM in charge of autocorrect at apple, I need to understand what the hell they are thinking!

I type what I want then add a sacrificial letter at the end, then delete it, then carry on.

- I just tested and this is the way, but it still took me a couple of tries due to it thinking it screwing with the capitalisation.

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