Re: English Unicode keyboards?

[seer26 <seer26@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The Dvorak layout is certainly a far more sensible one than the qwerty
> layout. But don't underestimate the switching cost involved.

I switched to it to prevent other people in my office from using my
terminal. (Way better than a password) Just popped all the keys out
and rearranged them. It took about two weeks to get back up to speed.
(Im by no means a touch typist, so I was never fast to start with)

The main difference ive noticed is there is slightly less strain on
the fingers, because of the hand-alternation for vowels. For
programming though, its not that much of a strain in terms of speed,
but you have to use so many special characters, and still have
to reach for escape all the time (if youre a vim user).

Unfortunately dvorak layout breaks alot of input method implementations
that ive tried, which dont have support for key-remapping simultaneously
with alternate language input. (they must hard-code qwerty).
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