German is so similar to english that switching is not really a thing. It's mostly programmers that do it to have easier access to punctuation and brackets. Fran

German is so similar to english that switching is not really a thing. It's mostly programmers that do it to have easier access to punctuation and brackets. Frankly, I cannot understand why the Z and Y were swapped in the first place. German keyboards are just flexible enough for writing the odd french or spanish loanword. Other languages pretty much always require specific keyboard layouts. Edit: The [Neo2 and Bone](https://neo-layout.org/ https://neo-layout.org/) layouts make it possible to easily type in most latin-based writing systems.