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Dutch people use US International layout keyboards almost exclusively (@ above 2). The Dutch layout (# above 2) is very very rare.
by sjmulder 14y ago
Dutch people use US International layout keyboards almost exclusively (@ above 2). The Dutch layout (# above 2) is very very rare.
- walshemj 14y agoOut of interest how do dutch keyboards handle the IJ
- Someone 14y agoTypically: not. Historically, I don't think there were character sets that had it as a character. Unicode nowadays has it, but discourages its use. http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.1.0/ch07.pdf http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.1.0/ch07.pdf: "Another pair of characters, U+0133 latin small ligature ij and its uppercase version, was provided to support the digraph “ij” in Dutch, often termed a “ligature” in discussions of Dutch orthography. When adding intercharacter spacing for line justification, the “ij” is kept as a unit, and the space between the i and j does not increase. In titlecasing, both the i and the j are uppercased, as in the word “IJsselmeer.” Using a single code point might sim- plify software support for such features; however, because a vast amount of Dutch data is encoded without this digraph character, under most circumstances one will encounter an <i, j> sequence." But don't take my word for it; I used Google to see what a Dutch keyboard layout is supposed to look like because I don't think I have ever seen one in real life. There were typewriters with a ij ligature. That makes sense because that is about the worst kerning pair you can get in a monospaced font (but as a monospaced ligature, it is fairly tight with those large vertical stretches both at the left and at the right)