Why keyboard shortcuts don't work on non-US layouts and how devs could fix it

Re:Why keyboard shortcuts don't work on non-US layouts and h... by Symbiote on Friday April 09, 2021 @03:40AM (#26747706)

The British/Irish ISO layouts are reasonable. They are very close to the US layout, but gain the additional key.

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Re:Why keyboard shortcuts don't work on non-US layouts and h... by numpad0 on Friday April 09, 2021 @06:29AM (#26748752)

I don’t think UK/ISO and US are close? Especially backquote between LShift and Z feels awkward if you’re used to ANSI.

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Re:Why keyboard shortcuts don't work on non-US layouts and h... by Symbiote on Sunday April 11, 2021 @12:01PM (#26771264)

These keys are in different positions: "@#~\|

These keys are present on the UK keyboard, but not the US: £¬

Compared to every other common ISO keyboard layout, ISO UK and ANSI are very similar. For non-programmers, ", @ and (nowadays) # are the ones that matter. For a programmer used to an ISO keyboard, the UK layout may well be a better choice than the US ANSI one. (US ISO would be a good choice, but the extra key seems to duplicate symbols already present on the layout).

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