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Scandinavian languages do not really have accented letters, though. What we have in Swedish, Danish and Norwegian are three more letters than the English alpha
by einr 9y ago
Scandinavian languages do not really have accented letters, though. What we have in Swedish, Danish and Norwegian are three more letters than the English alphabet, with distinct sound and meaning, that happen to look a bit like accented A's and O's. These letters are very common in our languages and a without them would be nigh unusable; like a keyboard without V, P or B (these letters have similar frequency in Swedish)
- vidarh 9y agoI'm Norwegian, and what I've found is that I prefer a US keyboard layout for coding, and only switch to a Norwegian layout when writing Norwegian. Especially given that æøå are generally using the triangle right of p and l, and so messing with my brackets and braces. I remember those well enough that I have no reason to have them on the keyboard, which doesn't make it particularly inconvenient not to have them on the keys, and I can always switch to US layout with a quick keyboard combo if I need a character I don't remember the position of on Norwegian layout. Of course, it helps that I live in the UK where the layout differences between US/UK keyboards are minor, so I'm not particularly inconvenienced when I have to use someone else's keyboard - if I lived in Norway I'd probably have stuck to a Norwegian layout.
- ploek 9y agoAs a German living in Sweden, I've switched to EURkey[1]. That way I don't have to give up the Swedish å or the German ü and ß. And I have a US base layout, which makes coding easier. [1] https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/layout.html https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/layout.html