I’ve used a US-QWERTY keyboard layout my entire life. I’ve seen other layouts that do things like reduce the size of the enter/backspace keys, move the pipe operator (|) and can’t wrap my head around how I would code on those.

What are your experiences? Are there any layouts that you prefer for coding over US English? Are there any symbols that you have a hard time reaching ($ for example)?

  • abhibeckert@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    On a Mac you can just type regular ANSI vowels and umlauts are added automatically. There must be some way to get that working on other platfroms?

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      5 months ago

      How does that work? Umlauts can totally change the meaning of a word.

      Konnte - was able, könnte - could, musste - had to, müsste - should, hatte - have had, hätte - would have.