One last thing: if I may suggest, you should replace the default picture by one with fewer characters: the german β, the spanish Ñ, and the scandinavian character (oslash, ae) may be nice to have, but they may play against you: French users may see them as irrelevant, and cluttering the keyboard. > I plan to get this keyboard layout standardized by a standardization organization once it's stable.Įven better! Using standards is a great way to work around many issues. I wish you a lot of luck, as I'm a bit irked to have to provide support for weird keyboards! (I hope someone from Germany will do as you did so QWERTZ can also die :-) This project aims to reinvent the wheel but in a good way! > I have nothing against that but the big issue is that they never look well at the previous attempts, which leads to crappy alternative standards. > I agree that French people tend to reinvent the wheel. This rendering of the currency layout is actually outdated, I've switched the positions of the currencies to make them easier to remember. € is on AltGr + 5, which makes it easy to remember. Also why on earth is there an entire key exclusively dedicated to « ² »?! Nobody knows why the A and Q were swapped, neither why the Z and W were swapped. Next step is adding a math dead key, but that's for another release. You can then just press the letter “y” for “¥”. You can then press any letter to type the corresponding greek character - for example “p” for “π”.įor currencies, press AltGr + Shift + 5, and the layout becomes: Just do AltGr + g (g for “greek”) and the layout becomes: Ιt goes further, I've added special dead keys that make it super easy to type greek and currencies (math is coming soon). Additionally, all the accentuated characters can be typed directly by combining the right Alt and another key, contrary to what it looks this is actually very convenient and doesn't slow down French typing speed noticeably. It is a strict superset of QWERTY, which means that anyone who knows QWERTY can type on this layout without even knowing that it's not a real QWERTY layout. It can look a bit overwhelming at first, but it's actually really simple. In a nutshell, AZERTY is the worst of both worlds - the people who designed it just wanted to see the world burn apparently.ĭue to this frustration I've been working on a keyboard layout that does exactly the opposite: bring the best of both worlds. Using another layout is the source of a lot of pain because intuitive shortcuts become awkward, or simply don't work at all and a lot of remapping is required. Every piece of software in the world and every shortcut is meant for the QWERTY layout. Oh and those French quotation marks that I'm using? They are not available on AZERTY either! Even though they are the ones that should be used in French.Īnother problem is that I'm a programmer and QWERTY is colloquially known as the programmers' Dvorak. Same goes with « ç », you need to remember to type the unicode key code with Alt+128 to type « Ç » otherwise you need to cross fingers that the autocorrect will catch it. A lot of characters are missing, for example you can type « é » but not « É » which is its uppercase counterpart. The big problem with this layout is that we can't type proper French with it. It looks similar to QWERTY, but some letters are swapped around, and some extra characters are added so that we can type in French easily - well at least that was the intent. As a resident of France, the official and widespread keyboard layout is AZERTY.
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