Text Editing Hates You Too

Re:Text Editing Hates You Too by alkonaut on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @05:26AM (#21385334)

As I said I wouldn't use Swedish language without a Swedish keyboard, even though it's quite possible (just 3 missing characters basically). What I'd do is switch to english language instead.

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Re:Text Editing Hates You Too by pcr910303 on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @05:33AM (#21385366)

> What I'd do is switch to english language instead.

Hmm, I've never encountered situations when only English keyboard is available for communication (except for when someone is setting up a new Linux machine).

But even if there is such situation, I don't think that would happen, I'm not sure if Swedish is similar to English but English is cognitive load here. Even with people that are proficient in English, I cannot imagine myself communicating with the English language.

I remember myself resorting to online keyboards though(while setting up Linux).

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Re:Text Editing Hates You Too by alkonaut on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @05:42AM (#21385405)

In industry in Sweden, especially in tech, english is the language used. If you have a team of 10 Swedish developers working on an app, they will most certainly write all user stories/bug reports/specs/code comments etc in 100% english. The 11th person to join might be an english speaker so you can't afford to have your backlog or code in Swedish. The step to using english for email/chat then is very small.

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