Re:Go generics may use square brackets [] not parenthesis ()
by _ph_ on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @08:47AM
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There are US English and English UK keyboards, both a very similar, and very dissimilar from French and German keyboards. I would challenge you to tell me how you type the following letters "easily" on an US international keyboard: ä ö ü ß.
Re:Go generics may use square brackets [] not parenthesis ()
by hocuspocus on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @12:09PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_American_keyboards...
The umlaut is a dead key so it's very easy. ß is AltGr or Option + S which I admit is a bit more annoying, but your spellchecker should take care of that, no? (I'm Swiss so even when I have to type in broken German, we don't use the ß here).
All layouts are tradeoffs. Not using the US layout makes a lot of things annoying in our field. I write code and use my IDE's keyboard shortcuts more than I need to write long texts in my native language.
Re:Go generics may use square brackets [] not parenthesis ()
by sacado2 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @11:05AM
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There are many diacritics in French, and not having a key for the most frequent accentuated letters is far from optimal (for instance, the previous sentence in French would contain 5 diacritics).
Re:Go generics may use square brackets [] not parenthesis ()
by hocuspocus on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @11:49AM
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You'll never find an optimal layout, they're all compromises.
I've switched to US intl 15 years ago and I don't type in French any slower than I used to. On the other hand I benefit greatly from using the default layout in our very US-centric field.
There's no English keyboard.
Writing French with the US international layout is actually pretty easy.