Re: How can we change the keyboard layout? (was: what keyboard do you use?)
hw <hw@adminart.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2024-02-05 at 14:34 -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > [...]
> > "The German layout differs from the English (US and UK) layouts in
> > four major ways:
>
> It's missing out on yet another major way: Umlaute.
If you reread the wikipedia page, you'll see that umlaut keys are
mentioned as the second of the four ways.
> The Umlaute take whole keys for themselves like other letters, and
> since there aren't any more keys on the keyboard, they replace other
> characters which contributes to the German keyboard layout being
> rather awkward and difficult to use. Whoever created it has
> completely overlooked that computers aren't typewriters.
>
> And it's very bad not to have a right Alt key. That also has
> consequences that make things worse.
>
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_keyboard_layout
>
>
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