[Interest] Preventing ^2 from being converted to a superscript 2

[Thiago Macieira]

On Sunday, 26 July 2026 08:50:24 Pacific Daylight Time Thiago Macieira wrote:
> But dead keys are a normal feature of a lot of languages. You simply can't
> type French, Portuguese, or Spanish (among many others) without them. The
> French keyboard layout has a dedicated key for é, because it's so common and
> it's the only letter with the acute accent in French. But not so for the
> grave, diaeresis ("tréma"), or circumflex accents, because they can apply
> to any of the 5 vowels, and dedicating 12-15 extra keys in the keyboard
> would be impossible (French doesn't have ä or ö and I can't recall a word
> with ü, but might as well provide it so they can type German).

Correction, ì and ò don't exist in French. But à, è and ù do, with à and ù 
existing in exactly one word each. There's a dedicated key for each, like for 
é and ç. All those extra keys pushed the numbers and the period onto Shift and 
quite a few symbols like {} and [] into AltGr. That's the second most annoying 
thing about using the AZERTY keyboard layout for programming (after being 
AZERTY in the first place).

Also note the traditional AZERTY layout has an "undead" circumflex in AltGr+ç. 
Using that will not cause superscript.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Principal Engineer - Intel DCG - Platform & Sys. Eng.
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