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When I moved from the US to Norway, I started buying Norwegian keyboards. This way I have easy access to the special Norwegian characters, and the loss of typi
by michael_dorfman 16y ago
When I moved from the US to Norway, I started buying Norwegian keyboards. This way I have easy access to the special Norwegian characters, and the loss of typing speed while I re-trained the keyboard layout was minimal and temporary. Of course, one of the factors was that it was a one-way move; I'm not planning on moving elsewhere anytime soon.
If you're planning on staying in the new country a while, I'd suggest taking the one-time hit, and switching.
- davidw 16y agoI'm not so sure... I think it depends some on what you're doing. I absolutely loathe using Italian keyboards for programming, and indeed, I tell anyone that needs me to do programming work with a computer not my own that I need a US keyboard. If you do a lot of writing in the new language, then, yeah, access to whatever funky characters might be a time saver. However, on the other hand, on Italian keyboards, { and }, if I recall correctly, require some alt key sequence, so you either remap them to something of your own via your editor, or go mad in short order.