Curious assignment behaviour

[Greg Ewing]

Markus Schaber wrote:
> 
> But there's a drawback: Trying to type :-) means Shift-:, then (without
> shift) a -, and after that shift-9... :-)

That's not unique to German keyboards -- the same
shift pattern applies to the one I'm using now!

The general solution obviously is to connect two
keyboards to your computer, one permanently shifted
and the other permanently non-shifted.

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