• Chloé 🥕
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    9 days ago

    could have happened on a canadian french qwerty keyboard: ! is shift-1, and " is shift-2

    Picture of a canadian french QWERTY keyboard, centered on the 1 and 2 keys. The 1 key as the exclamation mark above the 1, and the 2 key has the quotation mark above the 2.

    this could have happened on other layouts too, probably

            • DacoTaco
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              18 days ago

              Im not french and we still use this piece of shit. Thanks belgium.

              Also, us/international qwerty isnt that great either imo. Uk qwerty is better

          • Chloé 🥕
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            49 days ago

            oh god what horror that layout is

            you need shift to type numbers???

            • DacoTaco
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              18 days ago

              Yes, because in french you need the special characters more often than numbers

              • Chloé 🥕
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                28 days ago

                no, I don’t think we need & more often than we need 1

                and for accents, the canadian french qwerty keyboard handles them just fine; é (by far the most common accented letter) has its own key, all the other use dedicated dead keys. it works well!

                and you can write accented uppercase letters using the CF qwerty, on azerty you need a combination with AltGr for that (because using just shift types the numbers…)

                • DacoTaco
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                  27 days ago

                  Oh im not saying its perfect or any good, just saying what the logic was :p

                  I personally use both azerty and qwerty lol

          • @LwL@lemmy.world
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            39 days ago

            It’s great in mobas where skills are universally referred to by their default binding on qwerty (since most layouts have qwer on those keys). So sometimes unaware french people talk about their a and z skills and everyone else is just confused