I’ve used a US-QWERTY keyboard layout my entire life. I’ve seen other layouts that do things like reduce the size of the enter/backspace keys, move the pipe operator (|) and can’t wrap my head around how I would code on those.

What are your experiences? Are there any layouts that you prefer for coding over US English? Are there any symbols that you have a hard time reaching ($ for example)?

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    9 months ago

    Average American trying to comprehend that people from other countries exist

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        9 months ago

        I mean the layout they mentioned is called “US” layout I’m sure they could deduct that there are other country specific ones

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          9 months ago

          I’ve seen Tomorrow Never Dies, so I know there are Chinese keyboards.

          The UK speaks English though, so I would have figured a UK keyboard would be at least very similar to a US keyboard, enough so that switching from one to the other wouldn’t be too hard.

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            Every language has a different lay out because they are all based upon the typing machine.

            Which needed a specific layout so the hammers didn’t hit each other during commonly typed letters.

            And yes, British English is a different language than American English. That is why you have things like colour and color.