I am actually using the sweidsh keyboard with an estonian layout, so the backtick key itself produces ' and while holding Shift, it produces –.
Is there maybe a way to create a global keyboard shortcut?
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Looking through the keybindings in the Estonian keyboard layout that ships with Mac OS X, it appears (amazingly) that the backtick character (`) cannot be produced with any of the unmodified keys, nor with any combination of option, shift, or control, despite the fact that most of the option-character key combinations are left unmapped on this layout. There are many ways to modify it to produce this key combination.
You could create a modified Estonian layout using Ukelele, you could use a program like Keyboard Remap for Macbook, or even TextExpander.
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Thanks! I finally managed to change my keyboard layout with Ukelele. Now I can type ` with just a small keybaord shortcut!– ragulkaMar 21, 2013 at 10:50
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I added my modified keyboard here: dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3573333/… . Unzip it to your home folder Library/Keyboard Layouts folder and activate/select another "Estonian" keyboard in mac preferences. You can find where the key is with the Keyboard Viewer.– JaakLJan 16, 2017 at 13:02
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Sadly, this glaring issue still hasn't been addressed in the last 7+ years.
There is a Ukulele-based keyboard layout bundle available on Github that's straightforward to use:
Caret is mapped to ⌥Ä, as is common on Windows workstations.
Backtick is unironically mapped to ` — the key exists on the physical keyboard, the native layout just doesn't use it that way.
To install it:
- download the keyboard bundle from Github
sudo mv ~/Downloads/EstonianDev.bundle /Library/Keyboard\ Layouts/- restart
- change your keyboard layout to "Estonian Dev" from Preferences → Keyboard → Input Sources → +.
