On 21/05/2020 15:09, Thierry Parmentelat wrote:
clearly the experienced Python programmers are not the main target here our 7-year old schoolboys are used to typing é's and ç and ü’s and À’s, and this is Europe, not China, so...
You say that, but it is a source of endless annoyance to me that the Linux UK Keyboard doesn't offer AltGr shortcuts for a c-cedilla. It makes addressing my colleague François quite a pain :-/
Yeah well, if the whole english-speaking keyboard industry shares the feelings expressed on this thread, it’s no wonder ;-) I suggest you take a look at the US-international (not sure there is a UK-international) input method, that I think is available on all 3 OSes in one form or another, and that is cool for that sort of things (the keyboard I am using right now is a regular qwerty keyboard with no alt-gr modifier) and the other way around I can assure you that coding with a regular French keyboard - the infamous AZERTY thingy - is something you don’t want to have to do; you’d need alt-gr to enter a mere { - and digits come through shift- !