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@alexbrooklyn Yes, but I can't memorise two layouts.
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@Monk Some diacritics aren't even present on English keyboards, like ű.
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@alexbrooklyn As OP mentioned, not only is it painful to memorise different layouts, it's also a pain whenever you have to use a different computers.
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You could write a transplier https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/... that takes characters on your keyboard and translates the source to the official version which is then compiled.
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@bkwilliams C and C++ do that, actually. https://tutorialspoint.com/Trigraph...
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I switch between English and two types of Spanish layouts (sometimes in Dvorak) all the time and have no issues coding. Just select best layout for given language and learn it. Also, there are alternative layouts that move the keys around so that special characters lie where they would be on a US keyboard, e.g. https://github.com/zaki/... and if that's not enough you can always switch places between Alt and AltGr on driver level.
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@gronostaj That's actually not the case. Default "Polish layout" is the one used on typewriters in the 80's and it's as fucked as the Hungarian one. What you refer to is "Programmer's Polish layout", and yes, it follows good practices when it comes to keyboard layout design, fortunately. Similar Hungarian layouts exist, though.
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@cprn I have yet to meet a person who prefers the typewriter layout. Let's just forget about that abomination and appreciate our sane defaults.
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@cprn I've never heard of this, though it isn't surprising at all. I'll look into it.
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@programmerbugx Apparently, almost ten million other people are too, and those whom I have business with are usually of them.
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@gronostaj OP did not specify a language, but yes, trigraphs would work in this case.
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@matthewbdaly No programming language apart from imagine logo and a buggy old Delphi preprocessor uses hungarian, idk why 😞.
@highlight
eljárás add(a:egész, b:egész) {
vissza a+b
}
Entering BIOS be like
Never thought I'd have so much in common with a layout
Developers be like:
I ’m kinda jealous of English programmers. How cool must it be to have all the common characters for programming fit onto a single modifier, and to have all special characters for default vim keybindings available with shift. On a hungarian keyboard, braces and square brackets are both AltGr-bound, but parentheses are shift-bound. Oh, and the semicolon is AltGr + the key right above it, so it breaks touch typing.
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