On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 02:16:23PM +0200, Stephan Boettcher wrote:
> Gabriel Paubert <paub...@iram.es> writes:
>
> > A french or german keyboard will be different (I'm french,
> > but I can't stand the layout of french keyboards).
>
> I'm using us keyboards exclusively, in Germany. I type a lot more
> []{}\| than äöüß.
I believed that the ß has been suppressed in a recent reform of the
german language. But to be fair also, the umlauts are much
less frequent in german than accents, diaeresis and special characters
in spanish and french (ñçœ), æ is elso used in french but extremely rare.
I really have to type every day in three languages (french, english,
and spanish) and it's really painful on an US keyboard.
Besides that, it seems to be admitted in german to replace
ä, ö, and ü by the letter followed by e.
There is no such mechanism in spanish, and suppressing the tilde
on top of the n in the classical "Prospero Año Nuevo" ("Happy New
Year") message could be embarrassing ;-)
Gabriel
P.S.: I remember perfectly that when the first IBM PC arrived in
France in the early 80s, there were no \ on the keyboard. You had
to type a contrived combination (Ctrl+Alt+I can't remember what)
of keys to type the path separator, and it was at the command line
under DOS, without tab completion or any kind of help. Also using
TeX on a mainframe, the \{} characters were actually çéè, I won't
comment on the legibility of said TeX source...
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