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Developer from Norway here and I've used 'US Intl, with dead keys' for about 10+ years. Our ÆØÅæøå are slightly inconvenient (using AltGR on Linux, and Option
by finnjohnsen2 3y ago
Developer from Norway here and I've used 'US Intl, with dead keys' for about 10+ years.
Our ÆØÅæøå are slightly inconvenient (using AltGR on Linux, and Option on Mac), but you quickly adapt and I find it to be worth it to have all the programming relevant characters like '"{(\| in the super convenient location of the US keyboard.
My extremely made up assumption is that the Norwegian keyboard design was designed for typewriters, and the US is an older design made by and for developers.
- landgenoot 3y ago> US is an older design made by and for developers I think it is the other way around. Programming languages adopted the characters that are available on US Intl.
- amadeuspagel 3y agoEnglish simply requires fewer characters, and so things that are useful for any programming language, like different kinds of brackets and quotation marks, are more prominent on US keyboards.