Related but different (and no emoji special features), I was once recommended (either here or on Reddit) EurKEY [0] and have been using it since. Ö is (AltGr/Ctrl+Alt)+Shift+o.
I mainly type in English (and prefer it for programming), but I still need German Umlauts, it’s just a super convenient layout and even has niceties like typographical apostrophes (’ vs ') built in (ctrl+shift+alt+0).
To me, that seems more convenient than this (and Windows has a decent emoji picker with Win+. anyway, if you are into that )
Did you run into any problems using that layout? I tried using it (also after discovering it on HN) but I could not get around that bug where Windows error sounds appear randomly when alt tabbing.
I’ve been using it exclusively for probably over a year by now, the only problems I have is when crappy software has non-configurable hotkeys and conflicts with certain letters. And even then, AltGr instead of Ctrl+Alt usually works.
I mainly type in English (and prefer it for programming), but I still need German Umlauts, it’s just a super convenient layout and even has niceties like typographical apostrophes (’ vs ') built in (ctrl+shift+alt+0).
To me, that seems more convenient than this (and Windows has a decent emoji picker with Win+. anyway, if you are into that )
[0]: EurKEY The European Keyboard Layout https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/