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I am struggling to get started on a German keyboard. Some special characters are hard to reach.
by argonaut07 4y ago
I am struggling to get started on a German keyboard. Some special characters are hard to reach.
- jdrek1 4y agoI recommend using the American keyboard layout if you're doing anything remotely programming related, otherwise all the special characters are just way too annoying (even though personally there's also a few of those in the American layout that are suboptimal, but a keyboard only has so much space...). If you frequently find yourself needing German (or other European) symbols like ä then you can also look into using EurKEY [1] which is basically the American layout but gives you easy access to the "umlauts". [1] https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/ https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/
- FranklinMaillot 4y agoHave you tried the US-International layout[0]? It's basically the standard QWERTY US layout but ", ', ^ are dead keys used to generate diacritics. If you press " followed by o you get ö. ' + e prints é. The only thing to get used to is that if you want quotes for example, you need to press <space> or another character that doesn't accept accents after the key. I used this layout for French and it's way better than the weird French AZERTY layout. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY#US-International https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY#US-International
- argonaut07 4y agoTbh I have not. I was afraid of being slower to type or making more mistakes. But I think at least it is worth to try. Thank you.