The US International layout also uses the AltGr (Alt+Ctrl) as a modifier to enter special characters.īut this International layout has a critical downside (at least on Windows) for programming due to dead keys.
This layout changes the ` (grave), ~ (tilde), ^ (circumflex), " (double quote, to make diaeresis), and ' (apostrophe, to make acute accent) keys into dead keys for producing accented characters: thus for example ' (release) a will produce á. where are the accents? and the Ñ letter?Įveryone who needs any sort of diacritic or accent would ask the same question because the use en-US layout makes it unsuitable unless the US International layout is used. For me, it's very hard or even impossible to found a good keyboard with es-LATAM layout. Switching to en-US keyboard also comes with an added benefit: never will be easy to buy a mechanical keyboard. I don't know if I'm right or not, but it has a lot of sense to me. I think this is due because symbols and keyboard shortcuts are made to use with en-US keyboard layout. When these people were changed to this layout says that feel more natural, comfortable, and productive. Programming languages, IDEs, and Code Editors were designed and developed to use in English first, and if I'm not wrong I'm very sure were written with an English keyboard.
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If we are using the software in English and write code in English. Last few days, I started to see a lot of non-American developers (Latam, Spain, France, Germany, India, and Hungary) that recommend moving to use the en-US keyboard layout.Īnd again his advise came before my very eyes: So, the first time that I see this joke, his words got sense. Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode
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