This I wrote with left hand to notepad, corrections were ctrl+shift+arrow and shift+Ins/Del stylish. Space is always a problem here and keyboard is old, classic Keytronic stylish something, typing errors are also a very standard issue. They also have some nightmarish expanded layout, which is a bit much. Also, it looks like Polish people though about that a lot and have separate layouts for typists and programmers. How do you even type ^ on a German keyboard? Wiki says it is an accent key used for combing with other characters. Does this make it harder to use Pascal? And XOR in C, but I guess you don't use XOR as much. Do some character choices by the language designers make it more annoying to use? Or it makes no difference and you just get used to type on whatever keyboard you have? For example, Pascal uses ^ for pointers, and this specific character seem to be on random combinations of keys on different layouts. So I have a question for users of those keyboards and especially programmers that might need to type those characters a lot depending on the programming language used. But one thing that stood out is that special characters are not as easily accessible on all layouts as they are on the US layout. I've been looking at European keyboard layouts and they are all over the place. If you want to optimize your typing speed and usability, alternative layouts such as the Neo are certainly the way to go.Here is an abstract question that came to mind. I personally did not try out alternative layouts yet because I did not want to learn a layout which is that different from the default layouts. It is interesting to know that the default keyboard layout most people are using on their computer was actually designed to slow down the typing process in order to avoid typebars to collide and jam the machine. Hi Peter, the Neo-Layout is one of the keyboard layouts who are optimized so that most frequently used characters are easy to type. Klammern, etc alle schöne auf der Homerow. Im Neo-Layout ist die Ebene 3 interessant, die man auch getrennt ohneĭie Neo-spezifische Buchstabenbelegung nutzen kann. Ich habe inĭeinem Blog nichts zu Neo gefunden, deshalb lasse ich hier die Infoĭa. Nach einer optimalen Tastaturbelegung gesucht hatte. Mir ist letztes Jahr das Neo-Layout über den Weg gelaufen, also ich Here is a German email comment from Peter who is mentioning the Neo-layout:ĭieselbe Beobachtung mit dem US-Tastaturlayout habe ich auch gemacht

In case I have to use a business computer that was ordered with a German QWERTZ keyboard, I usually apply keyboard stickers to turn it into a US-international keyboard layout. Meanwhile, I only order my personal notebooks with US-international keyboard layouts. In my daily work, I have to type those special characters much more frequent than the German Umlaut characters. For me, this is the biggest advantage for advanced computer users or coders. For example, all shortcuts using, ,, |, and ^. They are often designed to be used on an US keyboard where German keyboard layouts do require additional modifier keys. You will notice that some keyboard shortcuts suddenly start to make sense. This is really intuitive to me, compared to the German standard layout. As a cool benefit, you also get characters like é or à via ' and e, and ` followed by a, respectively.

Same holds for ä ( ' and a) and ö ( ' and o). With an US-international keyboard layout, you have to use dead keys to type Umlauts: you get ü by typing ' followed by u. Sometimes people also add ß to the list of German Umlauts. One of the well-known 'funny' things about German are the Umlauts: ö, ü, ä.

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