Should default keyboard be based on location?

[Markus Hitter]

Am 24.05.2008 um 22:20 schrieb Evan:

> While living in Germany might point towards the use of a german- 
> layout keyboard, any decision really depends on what percent of  
> German users actually use german-layout keyboards.

Calculate with some 99%. Every PC offered comes with a german  
keyboard by default and only few vendors allow to change to an  
english layout. This holds true for even smaller markets like german- 
speaking switzerland.

> However, it is my guess that the standard US-English layout is  
> common enough that it makes sense to leave this as-is.

The reason, germans don't scream is, characters are almost the same  
on the german vs. the english keyboard. Punctuation ()<>"§$ is  
totally different, though and then, there are umlauts ... many people  
can't type their name on a english layout correctly.


Hope that helps,
Markus

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