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pcprogrammer:
Not sure if there even is a specific Dutch keyboard layout. I have always bought US type keyboards, so no problems when programming.

The only difference I might have is the extra euro sign on the 5 key, but can't recall ever having used it.
Benta:
The main difference (apart from layout) is the presence of the AltGr key, which is used to access the special characters. It can normally be emulated with Ctrl+Alt if you have a US keyboard running a European layout.
m k:
Space is always a problem here and keyboard is old, classic Keytronic stylish something, typing errors are also a very standard issue.
This I wrote with left hand to notepad, corrections were ctrl+shift+arrow and shift+Ins/Del stylish.

Normal letters and extras are not really a problem but missing Insert I can't stand, for obvious reasons.
I'm still occasionally using ctrl+Q and stuff with Delphi and Builder, nowadays less elsewhere.

Switching between Latin layouts is more pain than gain for extras only.
Even more than that if you've never really memorized that other layout.

Back in the day we used fall back scands, means Ä->A and Ö->O.
I'm still occasionally reversing them, seems to be a keyboard positioning thing.

Our layout has more brackets behind AltGr so when I start missing them too much I know the room is too dark.
Double action keys are ´` left from Backspace and ¨^~ up-left from Return so óòöôõ are pretty easy.
Anything extra below or under side of a latin letter seems to be missing, like C and something.
We had once a letter for double-s but that's from lantern era so not implemented.
Euro sing is AltGr-E, AltGr-5 is free.

Anybody still using Field/Enter/Rctrl?
vk6zgo:

--- Quote from: Kleinstein on March 08, 2023, 08:20:02 am ---The english keyboard is a little more convenient for programming, but at least the German one is not that bad either.  The main thing is "^" that is a bid odd and if in doubt, e.g. for a 2^a  use  the keys for ^ and space to get just the ^.

It is still not very practical to switch keyboard layouts just for a different task (maybe Ok if you switch to something completely different, like Arabic of Japanese). It causes too much confusion.

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Australians use the US keyboard with English spelling ---shown as English (Australia).

Unfortunately, sometimes W10 "gets its Knickers in a twist" & reverts to the UK keyboard layout, which is all OK, till the time you try to type ", & get @ instead.

You then just reset it, knowing it will happen again, right in the middle of something you are posting on line.
JPortici:

--- Quote from: ataradov on March 08, 2023, 06:31:38 am ---Wow, that is bad. Also, separate keys for pound and #, but no ~?

It looks like no matter what, some layout would be missing some special character.

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i ended up installing the microsoft tool to create keyboard mappings, and added backticks and tilde. Could/should probably add accented vowels, too...
Turns out there is also a "Italian (142)" layout. Italian layout, but parentheses backtick and tilde present but placed elsewhere. weird
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