The KDE English/Spanish keyboard of my dreams

I shared my joy in the Spanish forum a few days ago, (https://forums.opensuse.org/t/el-teclado-kde-espanol-ingles-de-linux-de-mis-suenos/194904 ), thought I should pass on the good news in English Open Chat, too.:

I write regularly in English and Spanish, had felt frustrated by the bother of switching between two KDE keyboards to type Spanish accented characters, quotation marks and apostrophes. I had searched the list of KDE keyboards, thought that the best I could do was: English (US, intl., with dead keys) … which didn’t do apostrophes without a second keypress, and only managed quotation marks via Alt-Shift-quotation mark. A pain.

I decided to sample every likely keyboard on the list, and found I hadn’t searched hard enough. At the bottom of the English(US) list, I found:

English (US, intl., AltGr Unicode combining)

and this is now the only keyboard I have to use. For the first time, I can type:

The full name of Spain’s prime minister is “Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón.”

with apostrophe, quotation marks and accents, without changing keyboards in KDE.

Now you know.

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You can achieve the same from any DE, with plain English (US). Go into the keyboard settings, enable the rAlt as the Compose key, done. Büt, Ī gét yøùŗ enthousiasm. ♪♫