The US-Int’l layout is a great improvement over the default keyboard layout, but it’s full of compromises and omissions. Int’l keyboard lets you type double angled quotation marks and single curved quotation marks, but not single angled- or double curved quotation marks. You can’t easily type dashes of varying lengths or typographic quotation marks with the U.S. On Linux, there are a lot of different keyboard layouts with varying capabilities to choose from. International (Int’l) keyboard layout is better with 206 different characters including a wide range of diacritical marks and some additional punctuation marks. The layout on Windows doesn’t have any diacritical marks and is limited to ASCII punctuation marks. English keyboard layout on MacOS can produce 213 different symbols compared to just 105 symbols on Windows. It’s something you use everyday but you rarely think about. I’d like to discuss the shortcomings of the default keyboard layouts in Windows compared to Linux and MacOS. Your keyboard layout (“keymap”) is the map between your thoughts and the physical movements of your hands and fingers - whether it be on a touch screen or actual keycap-buttons - to the symbols, letters, and words you write out in digital formats.
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