On 3/5/2006, at 10:57, Erwan David wrote:
[...] Of course I know some perceive this almost as saying “boot into Windows” :p
But my powerbook was sold with a french keyboard, and I also need some strange characters like éèà...
I myself need æøå / ÆØÅ and sometimes é.
I have just learned the option-keys for these (and dead keys for the accented characters). I write far less danish prose than I write code, so this is an overall gain. And it’s definitely easier to press option-a for å then it is to press opt-shift 7, 8, 9 for , {, } respectively, or even cmd-opt-shift 8/9 for previous/next tab in Safari ;)
I actually ordered an international keyboard by accident, but as they say, there are no accidents -- I was already pretty fed up with the danish layout at the time, and I knew that DHH was a proponent for the US keymap (he’s also a Dane), so it was certainly a good mistake I made ordering that keyboard.