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Honestly I'd probably be fine with a combined Swedish & English keyboard for most of my daily interactions (also Swede's in general and in the tech sector in particular mix in a lot of english).

However being half dane close to the german border and with a interest in language I do occasionally use other languages as well which results in me having 6 more active keyboards, and while I mostly toggle between Swedish, English and some occasional emoji it's quite a hassle to shift though half a dozen keyboards every other time.




Interested to hear what solution would be better for you. I live in Sweden and while I don’t speak Swedish everyone I work with basically does as you describe, the keyboard toggle between English/Swedish keyboards.

Frankly because I work with Danes and Swedes all the time it’s usually enough to hold down A and O when I need to type å, ö, ø, etc. but I usually don’t type in those languages. It’s mostly for locations and the occasional translation.


Why not do like I do with English, Swedish and Portuguese: use the English keyboard and long press the letters you need to type that have a diacritic, like: é, à, á, ê, õ, ... in Portuguese or å, ö, ä in Swedish?

This saves me the hassle of switching keyboards all the time, I just learned what long presses I need to use in the US International keyboard and can type even in German :)




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