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Re:In the Turkish locale, "INFO".lower() != "info" by hocuspocus on Sunday August 16, 2020 @03:15PM (#24180376)
Wrongly dropping accents on uppercase letters predates computer keyboards; the French azerty layout puts accented letters on the first level of number row:

http://j.poitou.free.fr/pro/img/tkn/tw-image.jpg

This idiocy carried over. The recent layout update makes dead accents more accessible:

https://norme-azerty.fr/

But I haven't seen much adoption yet.

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Re:In the Turkish locale, "INFO".lower() != "info" by zorked on Sunday August 16, 2020 @03:40PM (#24180581)
That button to the right of the P that contains four different forms of dashes is... interesting.

Even more if you consider that the minus sign there is not the character - that is used by every programming language.

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Re:In the Turkish locale, "INFO".lower() != "info" by masklinn on Sunday August 16, 2020 @04:25PM (#24180964)
> That button to the right of the P that contains four different forms of dashes is... interesting.

And there are two more on the 8 key.

I like the mac international keyboard layout, but it still only provides for 4 of those: the non-breaking hyphen and the "proper" minus sign are lacking.

I like that the "new azerty" provides for pretty much every diacritic, even those which are not in use in french.

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