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Re: France wants a new keyboard

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On Fri, 22 Jan 2016, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:

> RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>:
>
>> Having spent the last ten years in French speaking countries though, I
>> can confirm their keyboard layout sucks. Diacriticals all over the
>> place, shift to get to numbers, and a whole lot of Alt-Gr to get some
>> useful symbols. I wholeheartedly support this effort.
>
> Just let everyone define their own keyboard layout. That's what I've
> done so I can type Finnish, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Hebrew and C
> without switching layouts.
>
Redefining keyboards has never been particularly a problem.

Changing the keytops to match has been.

I suppose someone could come up with a keyboard that has a place for 
labels and then a clear plastic cover to go over them, though that's not 
so useful if you want to frequently switch your keyboard type.

   Michael

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France wants a new keyboard RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-01-22 17:10 +0000
  Re: France wants a new keyboard Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-22 17:21 +0000
    Re: France wants a new keyboard RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-01-22 17:32 +0000
      Re: France wants a new keyboard Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-01-22 22:28 +0200
        Re: France wants a new keyboard Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-01-22 19:40 -0500
          Re: France wants a new keyboard Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-01-23 10:43 +0200
            Re: France wants a new keyboard Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-23 09:25 +0000
              Re: France wants a new keyboard scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2016-01-25 17:36 +0000
            Re: France wants a new keyboard Andy Burns <usenet.jan2016@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2016-01-23 13:28 +0000
              Re: France wants a new keyboard RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-01-23 16:58 +0000
      Re: France wants a new keyboard Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-01-24 12:42 +0100
        Re: France wants a new keyboard Yeechang Lee <ylee@columbia.edu> - 2016-01-27 22:35 -0800
          Re: France wants a new keyboard Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-01-28 20:48 +0100
            Re: France wants a new keyboard Yeechang Lee <ylee@columbia.edu> - 2016-01-29 22:42 -0800
    Re: France wants a new keyboard mausg@mail.com - 2016-01-22 20:05 +0000
      Re: France wants a new keyboard Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-23 11:11 +1100
        Re: France wants a new keyboard Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-23 09:25 +0000
          Re: France wants a new keyboard Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-23 23:23 +1100
  Re: France wants a new keyboard Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2016-01-27 15:12 +0200
    Re: France wants a new keyboard Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-01-27 17:03 +0200
      Re: France wants a new keyboard Kara M'bola <maxupixu@in.val.it> - 2016-01-27 18:23 +0000
        Re: France wants a new keyboard RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-01-28 10:35 +0000
          Re: France wants a new keyboard Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-28 10:46 +0000
            Re: France wants a new keyboard Kara M'bola <maxupixu@in.val.it> - 2016-01-28 11:18 +0000
      Re: France wants a new keyboard Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-27 21:26 +0000
      Re: France wants a new keyboard Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2016-01-28 10:02 +0200

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