* Rasmus <ras...@gmx.us> wrote: > Karl Voit <devn...@karl-voit.at> writes: > >> Personally, I do think that tech-savvy users of non English speaking >> countries should definitely consider switching to US_intl layout for >> many reasons. > > What if the set of letters in English is a subset of the set of > letters in your the tech-savvy users language?
This is the case with the German language. However, there are ways to enter German umlauts with us_intl layout (digraph). With Microsoft Windows as an exception, it is possible to switch keyboard layouts on keyboard shortcuts. However, when I am coding, I am only using English variable names and comments. So most of the time, I am happy with 7-bit ASCII characters. If you do not code nor use strange environments like LaTeX, you might as well ignore my comments about tech-savvy people which was maybe a bit too general. >> From my experience, only a minority of text-savvy users are doing >> so. > > Perhaps the objective that these users are maximizing another > objective than the one you have in mind? Yes, you are absolutely right. So "tech-savvy" is probably too unspecific as a term. However, "coders" seems to be narrow as well. Maybe you can think of a term in between? ;-) -- mail|git|SVN|photos|postings|SMS|phonecalls|RSS|CSV|XML to Org-mode: > get Memacs from https://github.com/novoid/Memacs < https://github.com/novoid/extract_pdf_annotations_to_orgmode + more on github