Markus Kuhn <[email protected]> writes:
> There is no technical, cultural or ergonomical justification for the
> many keyboard layouts that we have at the moment. For instance, it is
> easily conceivable to come up with a single highly practical layout for
> the West European and Panamerican Market.
I'm skeptic to that. As a Swedish user, it's instrumental for me to have
��� as keys on the keyboard. Danish and Norwegian users needs ��� on
their keyboards. For your letters home you need ����. Exactly how
Mediterrenan users want their accents I don't know, but if you are
to accomodate all needs, you will get a large keyboard. And, frankly,
I don't really want a keyboard with keys that I use only rarely. It's
OK for me to achieve � by some two- or three-combination (although
I would be glad to be relieved from being compelled to know the
Latin-1 code, as I need today with my Swedish PC keyboard). But it
would be completely unacceptable if I would need to that for Swedish
letters.
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