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I live in Europe and buy my Chinese-made keyboards from Amazon, US. In the company I work for, I have not seen a single keyboard with "European" layout. People
by crabbone 3y ago
I live in Europe and buy my Chinese-made keyboards from Amazon, US. In the company I work for, I have not seen a single keyboard with "European" layout. People who buy those keyboards aren't people who need to be good at using their editor, while on the other hand, people who want to be good at using their editor will buy a keyboard that works well with it.
Keyboard is a one-time investment of 20-200 Euro, but learning to use your editor efficiently is an investment of years of your life... amplified by the fact that there aren't that many good editors. So, any person who needs to work with the editor on a daily basis will have to make a choice between buying a keyboard that works well with that editor or a keyboard that allows them to type Euro / Pound sign more easily... And nobody in this situation is going to choose the keyboard that doesn't work well with the editor.
- trinix912 3y agoYet nobody here has thought of just localizing the shortcuts like Microsoft Office and macOS have been doing for ages. Solves this problem very elegantly. Ironically, Word is the “professional” editor of most professions outside of coding, and people do learn the shortcuts to use it effectively. This obviously varies by country, but at the places I’ve worked at, most people used the local layout instead of the US one. They couldn’t bother relearning it and then switching every time they wanted to enter some text in the local (Slavic) language.