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I did the same (between German and English) and at some point I went to US QWERTY only. If writing German I trigger the German special characters through OSX sm

• V-2 10y ago
  I do, and I can confirm that it's slower. With Polish Programmer's you need to use right Alt + [a], [e] etc. in order to type ą, ę, ł, ó, ś, ń, ż, ź, ć. I do it on machines where I have no time nor interest to add the PN-87, or Polish typist layout (after mechanical typewriters where it was used in Poland before the computer era took over). That's the case of my work machine, for instance, on which I don't type that much in Polish anyway. Yet I still do now and then, so I can gauge the difference. Since I have to resort to these artificial combos, typing speed and convenience is inferior. It's other small things that add up, too - for example Polish layout uses QWERTZ, "z" being much more common in Polish language than in English where it's rare. For this reason putting "z" under the weakest finger of all, the left pinky, makes for really poor UX for someone using QWERTY to type in Polish. It's much better located in the middle of the top row. When writing in Polish, the flow is much better with Polish typist than "Polish programmer's" with its shortcuts. But as I said, your mileage may vary, and it seems so in your case.