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When designing a keyboard layout for a computer, you could start from scratch. I’ve always liked simple solutions to complex problems (or even avoiding the problem in the first place), and while the qwerty layout isn’t so bad, it’s designed for the mechanical type writer in mind. We’re entering the keyboard layout rabbit sub-hole. Why did I mention a keyboard I stopped using anyways? Because I found a way to make it work like a charm, but since I’m writing this in a chronological order, we are going down another rabbit hole first. For instance, right-alt + q would print æ, right-alt + l prints ø and right-alt + w prints å. It is called EurKey, and the way you would type European special letters is by pressing the right-alt followed by another key.
#60 keyboard layout install
I discovered a keyboard layout you can install on your computer which is made by a German guy named Steffen Brüntjen and is based on the US layout. It worked fine, but a lot of times I would type the wrong characters only to realize I was typing with the wrong layout. In the beginning I was switching between US and NO layout in the operative system with a keybinding. So after a few days of getting used to the new positions of the special characters, I really enjoyed the feeling. I didn’t have a keyboard with a US layout, so I just printed out a cheat sheet and put it on my desk. So you’re still here, that might mean that you’re using some European layout, am I right? The Norwegian layout is terrible for coding, because you’d use the right-alt modifier to type many special characters. If you are already using a US keyboard layout, go ahead and skip this paragraph.