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Re:Minitel – The Rise and Fall of a National Tech Treasure [... by digi_owl on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @01:23PM (#16267575)
> admittedly that's mainly because programming languages are qwerty-centric.

More like US layout centric.

EVen the humble unix CLI is a straight pain on anything but a US keyboard, as things like / now require a modifier key.

Funny thing is that There is a variant of the US layout with the right alt being alt-gr, allowing most languages that use latin script to be typed.

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