I did not realize this was a thing until I just switched to AZERTY which… despite being marketed as being “similar” to QWERTY, is still tripping me up

Edit: since this came up twice: I’m switching since I’m relocating to the French-speaking part of the world & I just happened to want to learn the language/culture, so yeah

  • Luc@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Over here in the Netherlands we are a bit of an outlier in the sense that we use the US layout of QWERTY

    Tell that to Microsoft! I remember people using Windows would complain their : turned into ± etc., actually I haven’t heard that in a while now, did they finally fix that or just change the layout switching hotkey to something one doesn’t accidentally press?

    • Humanius@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I think that finally got fixed several years ago. I do remember this exact problem though…

      By default both the Dutch and US International layouts would be enabled if you set up the computer to the Dutch region. And you could switch between them (accidentally) by pressing some key combination. It was highly annoying…