Comment Re:Choosing if you're willing to learn or not is e (Score 1) 638
I'm using dvorak for english, spanish, and french. It is really obvious that dvorak CAN'T be optimized for EVERY European language, but if you want 1 keymap for European languages, I don't think QWERTY is the best choice, unless you can prove it to me. For my part, there is no need to switch between keymaps because I use ALT-GR to cumulate accents and chars. You can nearly build everything you want, let apart the use of Unicode.
For other families of languages, you can't type japanese/korean/chinese with dvorak, thus, switching from DVORAK to 2bul or 3bul or Yetgul (example for korean) is IMHO as hard as switching from QWERTY to [2bul | 3bul | Yetgul].
Like you said for QWERTY, DVORAK may not be best-optimized to any single language, but I prefer NOT switching at all for latin-based (mostly European) languages, that's my (personal) advantage of using DVORAK... apart from not getting RSI in some years :D
(I really find dvorak more comfortable than azerty/qwerty).
The point is not to replace QWERTY with DVORAK, but to replace QWERTY with DVORAK(en), AZERTY w/ DVORAK(fr), [...]
I totally agree with the fact that replacing QWERTY with DVORAK while using multiple european keymaps is really not comfortable... I chose to use only standard DVORAK, which isn't a problem for me.
For other families of languages, you can't type japanese/korean/chinese with dvorak, thus, switching from DVORAK to 2bul or 3bul or Yetgul (example for korean) is IMHO as hard as switching from QWERTY to [2bul | 3bul | Yetgul].
Like you said for QWERTY, DVORAK may not be best-optimized to any single language, but I prefer NOT switching at all for latin-based (mostly European) languages, that's my (personal) advantage of using DVORAK... apart from not getting RSI in some years
(I really find dvorak more comfortable than azerty/qwerty).
The point is not to replace QWERTY with DVORAK, but to replace QWERTY with DVORAK(en), AZERTY w/ DVORAK(fr), [...]
I totally agree with the fact that replacing QWERTY with DVORAK while using multiple european keymaps is really not comfortable... I chose to use only standard DVORAK, which isn't a problem for me.
