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This is bizarre. I understand that not all keyboards are made the same, but why would a technical person not have a keyboard with square brackets? Perhaps one
by slumdev 7y ago
This is bizarre. I understand that not all keyboards are made the same, but why would a technical person not have a keyboard with square brackets? Perhaps one keyboard for writing volumes of text in his native language and another keyboard for doing technical work?
The French language doesn't use the standard quotation mark to indicate dialogue, but I would still expect a French programmer to have a keyboard capable of producing one.
- Symbiote 7y agoThat sounds ridiculously inconvenient. " and ' are on the standard French (and Belgian) keyboards. In general on European keyboards, letters like ê, å, ç, ñ, ß are more useful, so some of the punctuation only of interest to programmers and mathematicians ([], {}, ^, #, |, \, `, ~, _) is accessed using the AltGr (right alt) key. Usually, the AltGr symbol is printed on the bottom right of the key (Shift+AltGr symbols on the top right). Sometimes only some of these keys are printed -- typical British keyboards print € on the 4 key, but not á, é etc -- although (of course!) they still work.