I did not realize this was a thing until I just switched to AZERTY which… despite being marketed as being “similar” to QWERTY, is still tripping me up

Edit: since this came up twice: I’m switching since I’m relocating to the French-speaking part of the world & I just happened to want to learn the language/culture, so yeah

  • Humanius@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    27 days ago

    AZERTY is not really about being similar to QWERTY. It’s the French standard keyboard layout.
    Similarly QWERTZ is the German standard keyboard layout.

    Most (European?) countries use some variation of QWERTY with the symbols and special characters moved around to fit their respective languages better. Over here in the Netherlands we are a bit of an outlier in the sense that we use the US layout of QWERTY, but with additional modifier keys to make special characters available (It’s called US International)

    There is also niche layouts like DVORAK (optimized layout for English) and BÉPO (optimized layout for French).

    What is the reason you switched to AZERTY, if I may ask? I’m quite curious.