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Re: France wants a new keyboard

From Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: France wants a new keyboard
Date 2016-01-27 17:03 +0200
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Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi>:

> There was actually a project here in Finland to define a keyboard
> layout that would cover Finnish and Swedish (Finland is bilingual) and
> also the native people's Sami language, other Nordic and European
> languages and also other punctuation and symbols and quotes.
>
> The layout is a national standard now (SFS 5966) and was adopted at
> least into Linux.

That keyboard layout (<URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co
mmons/3/35/KB_Finnish_Multilingual.svg>) is a crime against ergonomics.

I wonder who you can sue for your carpal tunnel disability when you
produce

  { [ ] } \

by pressing a key on the number row with a right-hand finger *while*
simultaneously holding down the AltGr key with the right thumb.

And then the dollar sign has had to give way to

  ยค

(<URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_%28typography%29>). I have
never seen any use for that symbol anywhere.


Marko

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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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