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Of course you could still use {} etc, they just might show up as localized characters in your source code. There was no character set conversion involved at the
by jks 3y ago
Of course you could still use {} etc, they just might show up as localized characters in your source code. There was no character set conversion involved at the source code level, your terminal font just might have had the glyph for ä in the place of {.
The people who designed the Finnish keyboard layout were definitely not programmers, though: https://kbdlayout.info/KBDFI/ https://kbdlayout.info/KBDFI/
- anthk 3y agoDitto with the Spanish (es) layout, they layout looks more apt for journalist and writters than programmers. I just switch to the us keymap with the compose key bound to right menu/right win key, so I can type áéíóú with compose key + ' + vowel (not pressed at the same time). Ñ is more cumbersome (compose key + ~ + n) but I can adapt XCompose under BSD/Linux for that.
- murphyslaw 3y agoThere is a special place in hell for the unknown inventor of the AZERTY layout still in use today in Belgium and France. https://kbdlayout.info/kbdbe https://kbdlayout.info/kbdbe Imagine being called to a parents' friend to fix their computer, faking a QWERTY keyboard and trying hard not to look at the keys...