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> writing French from an English keyboard is a PITA. There's no English keyboard. Writing French with the US international layout is actually pretty easy.
by hocuspocus 6y ago
> writing French from an English keyboard is a PITA.
There's no English keyboard.
Writing French with the US international layout is actually pretty easy.
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- _ph_ 6y agoThere are US English and English UK keyboards, both a very similar, and very dissimilar from French and German keyboards. I would challenge you to tell me how you type the following letters "easily" on an US international keyboard: ä ö ü ß.
- hocuspocus 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_American_keyboards#/media/File:KB_US-International.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_American_keyboards... The umlaut is a dead key so it's very easy. ß is AltGr or Option + S which I admit is a bit more annoying, but your spellchecker should take care of that, no? (I'm Swiss so even when I have to type in broken German, we don't use the ß here). All layouts are tradeoffs. Not using the US layout makes a lot of things annoying in our field. I write code and use my IDE's keyboard shortcuts more than I need to write long texts in my native language.
- LandR 6y agoIf I set my layout to US then @ and " swap. So " is Shift+' and @ is shift+2 In UK keyboard layout, @ is shift+', and " is shift+2 (which is what is shown on my keyboard keys).
- sacado2 6y agoThere are many diacritics in French, and not having a key for the most frequent accentuated letters is far from optimal (for instance, the previous sentence in French would contain 5 diacritics).
- hocuspocus 6y agoYou'll never find an optimal layout, they're all compromises. I've switched to US intl 15 years ago and I don't type in French any slower than I used to. On the other hand I benefit greatly from using the default layout in our very US-centric field.