Should default keyboard be based on location?

[Florian Diesch]

Markus Hitter <mah at jump-ing.de> wrote:

> 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. 

The hardware is different (German keyboards have one more key).

BTW, British keyboards are different from US ones, so "english
keyboard" is misleading here.



   Florian
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