For some reason it gets even worse with a German Apple keyboard. Square brackets, where for art though? Through trial and error I found them using Alt/Opt+5/6… non-Apple German keyboards I’ve seen use Alt Gr+8/9, which is just as bad but at least they were labeled. I know why coders here don’t use the German layout! I feel uneasy just talking about it.
Here’s a text file with each character of the 4 rows in it, normal and then shifted, in qwerty, qwertz, and dvorak. I personally think that some ways the German keys change must be some sick joke (double quote moved up to shift-2, single quote almost staying put, angle brackets being shoved aside only to put the semi-colon and colon on different keys as well). If you ask me lots of that could be avoided by getting rid of the key that replaced the backtick/tilde, and putting the 3 vowels with the umlaut (ü, ö, and ä) on Alt Gr/Opt+<a, o, u>. But hey, I don’t type in German so what do I know.
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