Re:ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text
by dagw on Thursday March 27, 2014 @04:03AM
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I think it's french keyboards that are like that by default. Symbols are the default and you have to press the Shift-key to get numbers.
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Re:ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text
by seszett on Thursday March 27, 2014 @06:58AM
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Yeah, and some people complain that they have to use shift to get numbers.
I just think people will criticise their local layout no matter what. I use both a French AZERTY and a Québec QWERTY everyday (at work/home) and I think they are simply equally good for both typing French and for coding. The Québec keyboard (maybe actually Canadian multilingual or something) might have an edge because it more easily allows typing accented letters in uppercase, but on the other hand it doesn't let me type the € sign, so...