[OT] Keyboard layout, was Re: PEP318

[Antoon Pardon]

Op 2004-08-12, Roy Smith schreef <roy at panix.com>:
> Sion Arrowsmith <siona at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>> As someone who's just started using a Mac for the first time(*),
>> I'd like to add that it's not always plain-sailing on an English
>> keyboard.
>
> What's wrong with Mac keyboards?  I've used a number of Mac keyboards 
> over the past 15 or so years, and have found the variety of layouts to 
> be no better or worse (or more or less standardized) than any other 
> keyboards in general.  I'm currently using a 12" PowerBook and other 
> than finding the control key to be uncomfortably close to the space bar, 
> I find it perfectly reasonable for programming and emacs-ing.
>
>> And I have a great
>> aversion to remapping keyboards so that they generate characters
>> other than those on the keycaps.)
>
> Yes, that's evil.  I was just in the UK a couple of weeks ago and was 
> using a semi-UK keyboard.  As far as I could tell, the keycaps were 
> labeled with the UK layout, but the codes they generated were US style.  
> I touch-type, so as long as I ignored what was printed on the keycaps 
> and just typed normally, everything was fine.  But it's amazingly 
> difficult to ignore the printed keycaps.

It's not that difficult if you gain some experience with it. Half
the keboards here are qwerty the other half is azerty. On all machines
I have to work on with an azerty I have configured my account to
treat the keyboard as if the keyboard is qwerty. After a little
getting used to that works easier and faster than always adjusting
to the keyboard of the specific computer.

-- 
Antoon Pardon