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I agree. A really annoying "feature". I can understand it if you use the English qwerty-layout but not when you use the Swedish/Norwegian/Danish/German layout.

I agree. A really annoying "feature". I can understand it if you use the English qwerty-layout but not when you use the Swedish/Norwegian/Danish/German layout. There is an open issue for this over at the android issue tracker. https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/37104657 https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/37104657

hultner 9y ago
Another annoying "feature" is that the rest of the keyboard also changes by physically moving the keys, causing me to regularly mistype certain letters when changing keyboard as you can't trust muscle memory. I'd rather like to just have dead dummy keys on those slots or something so I don't have to mess up texts by muscle all the time.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 9y ago
  This is my struggle living in Sweden as an American. I go to type on my coworkers keyboard and the result is a mixuture of frustration and hilarity as my muscle memory produces bad results. Some things make absolutely no sense like switching - and _ on Swedish keyboards. Other random frustration is the lack of tilde on Swedish keyboards. How can you work on Unix based systems without easy access to tilde?! Interestingly all the Swedes I work with have their own solutions to the tilde problem. Some type the alt code while others use alternative keyboard configurations.
  - hultner 9y ago
    Tilde is available with alt-carret/umlaut, that's no harder then other specials such as @[]{}() etc. But I understand the frustration, I feel the same every time you boot up a new system or VM and it defaults to american layout, changing the keyboard layout from a unix prompt when you can't find i.e. - / : = is surprisingly hard. I used to use svorak a5 about 10 years ago but eventually switched back to swedish qwerty since it was causing such confusion with coworkers. I also switch to a right-handed mouse about 4-5 years ago for the same reason with the addition that ergonomic left handed mice are pretty much non-existent, it's mainly just standard two button mice which you flip the mouse buttons on.

hultner 9y ago

Another annoying "feature" is that the rest of the keyboard also changes by physically moving the keys, causing me to regularly mistype certain letters when changing keyboard as you can't trust muscle memory. I'd rather like to just have dead dummy keys on those slots or something so I don't have to mess up texts by muscle all the time.

SOLAR_FIELDS 9y ago
This is my struggle living in Sweden as an American. I go to type on my coworkers keyboard and the result is a mixuture of frustration and hilarity as my muscle memory produces bad results. Some things make absolutely no sense like switching - and _ on Swedish keyboards. Other random frustration is the lack of tilde on Swedish keyboards. How can you work on Unix based systems without easy access to tilde?! Interestingly all the Swedes I work with have their own solutions to the tilde problem. Some type the alt code while others use alternative keyboard configurations.
- hultner 9y ago
  Tilde is available with alt-carret/umlaut, that's no harder then other specials such as @[]{}() etc. But I understand the frustration, I feel the same every time you boot up a new system or VM and it defaults to american layout, changing the keyboard layout from a unix prompt when you can't find i.e. - / : = is surprisingly hard. I used to use svorak a5 about 10 years ago but eventually switched back to swedish qwerty since it was causing such confusion with coworkers. I also switch to a right-handed mouse about 4-5 years ago for the same reason with the addition that ergonomic left handed mice are pretty much non-existent, it's mainly just standard two button mice which you flip the mouse buttons on.