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Re:The language of Vim by h2s on Thursday March 28, 2013 @02:33PM (#5456750)
For a time, I was working on gathering some good data on keyboard layouts. I wanted to work out which keys were commonly available, which weren't, and so on. I wanted to work out which characters were the most "i18n-friendly" for developers worldwide.

One day, I happened to take a programming class in Brazil. I noticed that a lot of students were simply switching their keyboard layout to US English in order to write code. I ditched that project.

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Re:The language of Vim by McP on Thursday March 28, 2013 @04:09PM (#5457303)
That's a shame. I think your project still has a lot of value, even if the results are used more for software that's end-user focussed.
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