I actually use a Swedish keyboard and I've never found these dead keys to be a problem myself. Vertical bar/pipe isn't shown on most European Macbook keyboards

I actually use a Swedish keyboard and I've never found these dead keys to be a problem myself. Vertical bar/pipe isn't shown on most European Macbook keyboards, nor is backslash in fact, so I guess backslash has to be removed too. I'm just saying it's not a great argument.