> Brilliant! Maybe it was brilliant early on, but by 2000 like 99% of computer users didn't knew about the typist layout and yet it was always one accidental k

> Brilliant! Maybe it was brilliant early on, but by 2000 like 99% of computer users didn't knew about the typist layout and yet it was always one accidental keypress away :) It was a shortut that you could press accidentally when you highlighted whole words with ctrl+shift+left/right. > ignored diactritics Yeah we wrote without diacritics too early on. On computers because in 90s there were 3 competing 8bit encodings so it was like 66% chance you got the encoding wrong. Most nerds (me included) could recognize the most common encoding mismatches visually :) Thank god for utf-8 :). We had diacritics in phones but it was a hassle to type them with numerical keyboards on dumbphones, so most people didn't. So now it looks "lazy" to avoid diacritics and most people use them AFAIK. BTW it's funny how outdated Polish ortography (we still have digraphs sz/cz/rz/dz and even some trigraphs like dzi which most Latin Slavic scripts replaced with š etc.) became a positive early on during the computer revolution.