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The Spanish layout (as used in Spain) is the best compromise I've yet found to write code, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, and would prob
by Rygian 3y ago
The Spanish layout (as used in Spain) is the best compromise I've yet found to write code, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, and would probably work fine for most other European languages with a couple more dead keys.
- the_gipsy 3y agoIt's missing at least "ß" for German, has annoying dead key, but above all it's extremely awkward for coding because most symbols have been shuffled around for no good reason. Try out altgr-intl[1] (but no dead keys, where you just press e.g. AltrGr+E for "é", might not be installed on windows/mac). It's much better than Spanish for Spanish, can be used for the mentioned languages and probably some Scandinavian, and doesn't make writing code awkward. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_QWERTY_keyboard_language_variants#US-International https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_QWERTY_keyboard_langua...
- Rygian 3y agoA keyboard without dead keys for accents is a non starter for me. Thanks!
- the_gipsy 3y agowithout? Why would you want to require more key-presses?
- Rygian 3y agoBecause a keyboard has a fixed number of keys. If you want to have a bunch of letters of the alphabet with any the diacritics on top, you run out of keys very very quickly. Dead keys are the sane solution to that question. Also, regarding ß, I've got it in two ways: "AltGr + s," or the sequence "Compose, s, s." By the way, Compose is the ultimate dead key.