hw <h...@adminart.net> wrote: > On Mon, 2024-02-05 at 14:34 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > [...] > > "The German layout differs from the English (US and UK) layouts in > > four major ways: > > It's missing out on yet another major way: Umlaute.
If you reread the wikipedia page, you'll see that umlaut keys are mentioned as the second of the four ways. > The Umlaute take whole keys for themselves like other letters, and > since there aren't any more keys on the keyboard, they replace other > characters which contributes to the German keyboard layout being > rather awkward and difficult to use. Whoever created it has > completely overlooked that computers aren't typewriters. > > And it's very bad not to have a right Alt key. That also has > consequences that make things worse. > > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_keyboard_layout > >
