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The lesson here is that if you want to do programming-type work, use an English-friendly keyboard. Which should make sense because most popular programming lang
by stickfigure 7y ago
The lesson here is that if you want to do programming-type work, use an English-friendly keyboard. Which should make sense because most popular programming languages are written in English (and 7-bit ascii to boot).
Either that or Belgians need a modernized keyboard with easy keys for popular programming language chars.
- toxik 7y agoIt is never an issue except for weird control key combinations that are impossible to make. I think we should promote multiplicity keyboards layouts and input devices in general!
- djsumdog 7y agoI was surprised so many international keyboards don't have brackets! Do software engineers in those language just remap those to accessible keys? It would be super annoying to use one keyboard at home and a totally different layout at work.
- blensor 7y agoJust as I press Shift + letter to start a noun I use AltGr + 8 to start an array. Not really much of a hassle.
- archi42 7y agoWe have {}[], but for me they're a pain to type since it breaks my typing pace. When I was gifted an old laptop with US layout I saw the light and changed my desktop keyboard to US as well. When I started working my employer asked whether I wanted US of our local layout (I think 30% use US). I'm using a US intl no dead keys layout, and can easily type our Umlaute (actually much easier than {}[]).
- Joeri 7y agoThe mac belgian keyboard layout is worse than the standard belgian layout because it requires two modifiers to use square brackets instead of one. There are indeed many programmers that use qwerty layout in belgium, but laptops with the ISO qwerty layout can be harder to get depending on the brand than azerty and convincing employers to buy one can be challenging.
- roelschroeven 7y agoBuy them in the Netherlands: they use QWERTY. They're often cheaper there too.