Do other languages have their own keyboards? How do those silly Scandinavian countries easily type their crazy letters? How do Japan and China handle their many letters in their alphabets?
We just use the standard qwerty keyboard and get our funky letters with alt+key combinations.
In theory there is a dedicated Polish layout with separate buttons for each letter, but I've yet to meet anyone who actually uses it.
we need a lot of space for setting
>>61018307
You type in pinyin for Chinese. Therefore you need to know how to say the word when you type it. You also need to know roughly how it looks like as it gives you a selection of characters that match up with what you are typing.
>>61018307
We speak Spanish so it's pretty much the same thing for you, with the difference that we have a "ñ" button.
>>61018492
What is this
>>61018307
>>61018492
holy shit this can't be real
top fucking kek
>>61018724
japnese keyboard
>>61018492
what do the pedals do
I think the amount of buttons are the same just more uses
They use romaji/pinyin in asia
>>61018307
What is Google?
>>61018884
So you basically have 2 keyboards, why aren't the characters which are identical shared?
My keyboard looks like this.
>>61018981
no, we do not have umlaut letters
I use a French AZERTY keyboard.
alt+letter combos for fadas over letters e.g.
áéúíó
hash+letter combos for punc séimhiú e.g.
ṫṁċ etc.
high r = ɼ
high s = ſ
>>61019066
>why aren't the characters which are identical shared?
I'm guessing it because they had an existing Russian keyboard pattern prior to merging them.
>>61018945
that controls how many words per minute they type
>>61019420
>irish keyboards for the three people who speak the language
>>61019557
There's a lot more than 3, a chara.
>>61018307
what is google
>>61019611
Would a foreigner make friends more easily if he learned Irish before immigrating?
>>61018492
This is japanese april fool joke.
ABNT keyboard. It's shitty as fuck.
1. No fucking need to map ´+C = Ç if you're going to insert a fucking snowflake key for that shit anyway.
2. Portuguese spams diacritics. And yet you need to press two keys to get ` and ^.
3. Everybody uses :, but just a few pedants like me use ;. Guess which one is more accessible on the keyboard.
4. Win keys. If you don't use WinDOS, they're useless; if you do, they're there to be pressed at the most inconvenient times, like when you're fucking playing.
>>61019824
No need. It'd be a good party trick though.
American keyboard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AtBE9BOvvk
>>61019922
Also, my own share of hate: writing in Polish, German or Latin (with macron and breuis) with this fucking keyboard is a pain in the ass, I either need to press four keys for stuff as ą or ā, German spams ä/ö/ü and it is a chore if you need to Shift+6 every time, and I had to hack the fucking layout even to be ABLE to write ć and ż.
зтaвaмиeхyхpымyхpы
it's Romaji and predictive transform desu
>>61020437
What's the layout itself?
Also, which romaji, Hepburn or Kunrei?
This is the most american thread I've seen in a while.
>>61018307
google IME, works wonders
>>61018945
kick drums to stay in rhythm while typing haikus
>>61021790
kek i'm crying here
An autistic variant of AZERTY called AŽERTY
Nobody uses it.
We can set the language to Lithuanian on a normal pc with a normal keyboard and just use numbers 1-8 and the = character. This is what most people use.
>>61019066
I wish that were the case. It really is annoying when I need to use the Russian keyboard for translations and I can't find some letters because they keyboard is worn out
I can only hope you're joking...
In Vietnamese, we use 2 of the extra spaces off to the side to get the ư and ơ, numbers 1–4 to get ă â ê ô, 0 to get đ, and 5–9 to get the tone markers which can be put on any vowel, which amounts to a fuckton of individual Unicode characters that Vietnamese alone uses. It was supposedly a nightmare back in the days of typewriters.
>>61018492
top kek
>>61018945
You fell for the pedal question!
This is now a keyboard thread
USA USA USA
>>61023427
>Razer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDsj3o9s8Cs
It's a qwerty layout + a dedicated key for ñ character and a dedicated key for the accent mark(s)
characters with accent marks are produced by pressing the accent key followed by the vowel you want to put accent on.
>How do those silly Scandinavian countries easily type their crazy letters?
Do english speakers even know about Shift+Alt or Shift+Ctrl?
>>61018981
This is how it looks under Linux.
Purple for shift+ AltGr.
QWERTZ. Because fuck you.
>>61027203
but why
>>61027233
Z is way more common in German than Y, that's why the keys are switched. I think French does the same.
>>61018307
Italian keyboard in all its splendor (except it's really dirty, but who cares)
This is from my laptop, standalone keyboards have buttons positioned a little differently, but it's basically the same.
I also use it for Chinese and Japanese with IMEs for iBus.
>>61027251
Nope!
>>61027251
No, French is AZERTY
>>61027203
I still have nightmares from working on a German computer.
>>61018981
Why don't you just use 26 letters in your language like civilized people?
>>61027287
>Duitsers
>>61027203
>STRG
Why tho? Slavic and asian keyboards still say "Ctrl".
>>61027011
No. They really have no idea.
>>61027353
Strg = Steuerung
>>61027389
I get that, but why translate in the first place? Nobody does that. It's not like it's hard to memorize four letters.
>>61027353
Slavic had it translated too, it was just killed together with the USSR and replaced with American imports. This is why we have to access the comma through Shift. Pretty retarded if you ask me.
Strg means Steuerung (Control, think "steering").
>>61027233
>>61027203
QUERTZ sounds more badass than gay QUERTY
We type normal alpahbets and choose the suitable one from the list to convert. If the PC's spec is bad it freezes just for typing.
I think Japanese and Chinese are the most inefficient language to type.
>>61019066
Same principle as with the English typesetting: most used letters are in the center, least used are at the edges.
>>61031103
>producing a comma requires the shift key.
I'm slightly autistic but I use a Colemak layout on my computers. It helps when I need to copy stuff down in a foreign language since I have access to almost every accent with the right alt key
>>61031351
That's not.
qwerty is for pussies
>>61031714
Why do you have a 4chan button?
>>61019318
kill yourself
>>61031887
Cmd is command, using it in combination with other keys will result in shortcuts to certain computer actions
>>61027203
We have qwertz here too, except we don't have that commie key but we have čšžđć. The last two are useless, though. I can also type ł, Ł and ß, for some reason.
azerty masterace here
>>61033649
... but not much else!
>>61033649
I use azerty on my phone because I am hipster like that.
It really fucks with people if the borrow my phone to send a text or something.
>>61019318
Why are the French so retarded? Too much red wine during pregnancy?
>>61037157
The placement of letters is just more adapted to French words
Or at least that what we tell ourselves
>How do Japan and China handle their many letters in their alphabets?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_method
>>61037157
wanna have fun ? look at the number
>>61019922
>but just a few pedants like me use ;
keyboards were made by programmers for programmers, m8
>>61031887
it's Apple version of ctrl
>>61037928
W-Wait what's wrong with them
>>61038368
pretty much every other layout has the numbers as direct access, with the azerty layout you have to press shift
I can't sleep. Wat do
>Shitposting on 4chan
>>61018307
>They don't have £ on their keyboard
Cucks
>>61038550
but... why
>>61038550
Unless you have a tiny ass computer most keyboards have this
>>61039054
only old people use those
>>61018307
AZERTY Master Race
Where Britbongs usually have numbers we have
&é"'(-è_çà)=, which means all our usual diacritics are readily accessible, plus parentheses and quotes
â and other circumflexes accented letters are done in 2 pushes, the rarer ä and other trémas in 3 pushes
, ; ! : are accesibles in one push ; .? in two. We even have a special key for ù, used in exactly one word
(pic related is very out-of-date, we have € with alt+e now)
>>61039085
I use it all the time, started doing it when I worked in tech support at a library
>>61038886
because the characters there get used quite often
>>61039054
i know, i'm just saying
>>61039085
i do and i'm not old
>>61039085
Still much better to have &é"'(-è_çà) on easy access with 123456789 on offhand access than not having easy access to é, probably our 2nd or 3rd most used character
>>61039252
>We even have a special key for ù, used in exactly one word
It's a really common word so that makes sense
>>61018307
yep, Czech keyboard
We use the Nordic keyboard, which bundles some of the regular keys to make room for letters like Ŋ, Ä and Ö.
>>61018307
keyboards with an L-shaped enter key are cancer
