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## USGermanKeyboardLayoutHowTo.md

      
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                How to add a US-based keyboard layout with support for german special characters to Ubuntu 18.04
              
          
    Description

How to add a custom keyboard layout based on the standard US layout with slight modifications for german special characters.

Enter üäöß by pressing right Alt + uaos.
Enter ÜÄÖẞ by pressing right Alt + Shift + uaos.
Enter € by pressing right Alt + 5.

HowTo

Add the following lines to end of /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us file

  
## data.json
{
    "test": ["foo", "bar"],
    "child": {
        "grandchild": 12345
    },
    "sibling": "sibling value",
    "awkwardly/named~variable": true
}
	{
	"test": ["foo", "bar"],
	"child": {
	"grandchild": 12345
	},
	"sibling": "sibling value",
	"awkwardly/named~variable": true
	}