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The | and \ keys are different places on Norwegian and Danish keyboards.

• lordnacho 2y ago
  I always wondered why the special non-language characters are in different places in various language specific keyboards. Do Danish people not pipe their standard output as much? Do Swiss people not write emails as much? Are Europeans bad at finding the return key, thus requiring a larger one than Americans? These are all things I've actually come across. Why are the special characters in all sorts of weird places? One of the great mysteries of life.
  • Ekaros 2y ago
    On other side I always found weird that ANSI layout has this weird monster key for | \ like are those so often used it needs bigger key? Why not just used standard sized key for normal thing... Also why miss such useful symbols as ¤ ½ § from layout?
  • jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
    I think most layout differences come from back then typewriters and word processors were the most that was available, and nothing got changed due to inertia. Going back and forth between " and @ being capital-2 daily is probably the one that's caused me the most frustration.