The EU keyboard layout

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spankmeister: Jun 15, 2008

Nolgthorn posted:

I moved to Europe and bought a new retina mbp when those were new. Spent a ton of money on it and when it arrived I noticed that the keyboard is all hosed up, I'm a software developer and this thing is hell. Where are the brackets I need? When the gently caress am I ever going to use: öäü? Never.

The freeking squiggly key is ALT-n: ~

Backslash is freeking ALT-SHIFT-7: \

Motherfucking square bracket is ALT-6: ] so, that means to indent a block of code I need to press freeking ALT-SHIFT-6. It's bullshit and I can't wait for an opportunity to replace it.

Protip: German keyboards are very bad.

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spankmeister: Jun 15, 2008

QWERTZ? get that poo poo outta here son! loving German keyboards piss me off.

As an aside to all you Americans: there's not really an "EU" keyboard layout so for example if you'd buy a computer in Germany you get a terrible qwertz keyboard but one country over The Netherlands uses US-international. In Belgium they speak Dutch and French (and a small German part) but they all use the French Azerty layout.

So it's not clear cut at all.

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spankmeister: Jun 15, 2008

Smoke posted:

Belgian AZERTY is just a tiny bit different from French AZERTY, a bunch of the symbols are in different places(and key labels are in French on French AZERTY). This is hell if you're used to QWERTY, have to type on Belgian AZERTY and the physical keyboard is French AZERTY.

Also, the only reason Belgium has AZERTY is demand from the French-speaking part of the country.

Yeah gently caress those guys.

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