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0 pointsToutouxc3y ago0 comments

I use a Czech keyboard layout on my Mac, because Czech has some letters that don't exist on a US keyboard, and I don't like switching between layouts. So basically all "programming" characters (braces, brackets, parentheses, apostrophes, quotation marks, pipes, colons) are behind modifiers.

I would totally enjoy being able to tell my IDE to "call foo with bar and string hello there end string with a block of gee times two" or something, instead of:

  foo(:bar, "Hello there") { |gee| gee * 2 }

Just that, not having to think about typing different symbols would be a serious quality of life feature for me.

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xeeeeeeeeeeenu3y ago· 1 in thread

>So basically all "programming" characters (braces, brackets, parentheses, apostrophes, quotation marks, pipes, colons) are behind modifiers.

Poland ditched a similar QWERTZ-based layout in favour of this: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plik:Polish_programmer%27s_lay...

It's basically the standard US layout but the right alt (AltGr) is a modifier. So, for example, AltGr+A gives "ą".

I don't see why something similar can't be done for the Czech alphabet.

ToutouxcOP3y ago

> I don't see why something similar can't be done for the Czech alphabet.

It probably could — we already can't fit all the letters with diacritics on the number row, so "ď, ť, ň, ó" are key combos. But as far as I know, Czech uses diacritics a bit more than Polish (e.g. for sounds that are digraphs in Polish), consider:

"Že se nestydÍŠ, nutit lidi psÁt ČeskÉ speciÁlnÍ znaky pomocÍ dvojhmatŮ!" — that's 10 modifiers just for the diacritics.

Having ALL diacritics as modifier combos would make typing actual texts even more annoying than programming is now.

_wolfie_3y ago

My solution is just not to use czech characters, seems to work well so far :D

xigoi3y ago

Have you tried the UCW layout? English-like keyboard, but with a bonus modifier key that produces Czech (and other) letters. I use it and it's so much better than the traditional Czech layout.

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