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Important to note there are two 'flavours' [with a fecking U!] of English. So, even if you're a native English speaker, it can be almost as frustrating, as most

Important to note there are two 'flavours' [with a fecking U!] of English. So, even if you're a native English speaker, it can be almost as frustrating, as most programming languages are written in US English. So, if you're the kind of person who takes a pride in your spelling and grammar, there's the constant thorn in the brain of having to deliberately spell words wrongly all the time, such as needing to write: color instead of colour center --------> centre math ----------> maths And then these new-fangled languages [like Crystal] come along and add to the misery with their: fiber ---------> fibre

GianFabien 6y ago
With non USA keyboards some punctuation characters are much harder to type or even non-existent.
- jfengel 6y ago
  That's interesting. Can you give some examples?
- Normille 6y ago
  One thing I really like about Apple keyboards is that they make it really easy to type a lot of accented letters and characters, using just the ALT key. Usually [with UK layout anyway] ALT+E followed by the vowel you need will give you an accent on that vowel; acute on E, umlaut on O and U, etc. I use Irish layout which is the same as UK but has the additional advantage [for the languages I need to type] that I can type acute accented vowels with just ALT+vowel: áéíóú ÁÉÍÓÚ Thus saving an extra keystroke. Some other handy ones: ALT + s gives you German ß ALT + n followed by another n gives you Spanish ñ ALT + c followed by another c gives you French ç ALT + ! gives you Spanish ¡ [oddly, on my keyboard ALT + ? doesn't give the Spanish upside down question mark, but a division sign] ALT + g gives you copyright symbol © ALT + r gives you registered trademark symbol ® ALT + k gives you a degrees symbol ˚ ALT + t gives you square root symbol √ ALT + y gives you a Yen [?] symbol ¥ ALT + f gives you a florin symbol ƒ ALT + h gives you a mu symbol µ ALT + l gives you pi π etc. etc.

GianFabien 6y ago

With non USA keyboards some punctuation characters are much harder to type or even non-existent.

jfengel 6y ago
That's interesting. Can you give some examples?
Normille 6y ago
One thing I really like about Apple keyboards is that they make it really easy to type a lot of accented letters and characters, using just the ALT key. Usually [with UK layout anyway] ALT+E followed by the vowel you need will give you an accent on that vowel; acute on E, umlaut on O and U, etc. I use Irish layout which is the same as UK but has the additional advantage [for the languages I need to type] that I can type acute accented vowels with just ALT+vowel: áéíóú ÁÉÍÓÚ Thus saving an extra keystroke. Some other handy ones: ALT + s gives you German ß ALT + n followed by another n gives you Spanish ñ ALT + c followed by another c gives you French ç ALT + ! gives you Spanish ¡ [oddly, on my keyboard ALT + ? doesn't give the Spanish upside down question mark, but a division sign] ALT + g gives you copyright symbol © ALT + r gives you registered trademark symbol ® ALT + k gives you a degrees symbol ˚ ALT + t gives you square root symbol √ ALT + y gives you a Yen [?] symbol ¥ ALT + f gives you a florin symbol ƒ ALT + h gives you a mu symbol µ ALT + l gives you pi π etc. etc.