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Re:Why keyboard shortcuts don't work on non-US layouts and h... by lxgr on Thursday April 08, 2021 @05:20PM (#26743891)
> I take it this layout was invented before Unix and its heavy use of forward slashes

My guess would be that Unix chose many of its special characters and keyboard shortcuts precisely because they were easy to type on a US keyboard.

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