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How to “éèëê ïî öô üû ç”? Let’s not even talk about “úíóñ¿¡”, “ß” or “©«€»”!

Even before arriving in the U.S. some years ago, I had already switched to the United States-International Keyboard Layout and will never go back to any other layout. Even if I would live in any other country, I’m pretty sure I would stick to it.

If you’re curious, check: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306560&sd=tech

 

 

Published Friday, October 08, 2004 10:22 AM by yvesdolc
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# re: How to “éèëê ïî öô üû ç”? Let’s not even talk about “úíóñ¿¡”, “ß” or “©«€»”!

Friday, October 08, 2004 1:16 PM by AT
How about Dvorak layout ?

# re: How to “éèëê ïî öô üû ç”? Let’s not even talk about “úíóñ¿¡”, “ß” or “©«€»”!

Friday, October 08, 2004 1:27 PM by Yves Dolce
Well, I always thought this was related to a different physical layout keyboard!

But I was wrong: "reduce the degree of motion required to type common English text. This feature might help avoid some kinds of repetitive strain injuries that are associated with typing. "

Also: ttp://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q95/1/41.asp&NoWebContent=1

At any rate, this seems a bit too far away from the usual layout: when working on someone's else machine, I cannot ask [him|her] to change the layout just for me. I'm afraid that after getting used to that layout, I would now have a hard time working with any of the [AZ|QW]ERTY layouts...

But this does seem to make sense, especially if you already have suffered from repetitive strain injury.

Thanks for teaching me something new!
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