Īnd where for example he simply denied that in French "à" is a full-fledged letter and not simply a "a with a diacritic". I can't help but keep wondering: is this a belated April Fools' joke or what?įirst, a disclaimer: I am not French and I don't know anything about anything. But how does combine with the characters under the key 8? It SEEMS but it's not unequivocal that the key to the right of P has the following characters: hyphen-minus, underscore, em dash and ¿¿en dash? (looks like a second hyphen-minus).Perhaps that was the Z key in an early draft? Where IS the eñe letter? (the combining AltGr-N+N combo will be uncomfortable enough for AltGr-F+N to be preferable). No consistency in the assignment of the "caractères européens" dead key - while it's understandable that ß/ẞ gets promoted to the base layout, there is no apparent reason for adding ezh (ʒ/Ʒ) as well, and under W instead of Z.Also, no non-combining ~ (tilde) and ` (backquote) characters anywhere. The placement of the | character stinks.What is greek letter θ doing in the AltGr layer of the base layout?.Little to no consistency in the placement of the diacritic dead keys.Also, how will these combinations behave when CAPS LOCK is on? This is NOT intuitive and WILL be the source of errors. Mainly, letters will be in base/Shift pairs or AltGr/AltGr-Shift combinations for lower and upper case forms (a/a, ç/Ç, …), except a few that are assigned base/AltGr combinations (à/À, ê/Ê, …).Important currency symbols are missing, but the Austral symbol (₳) is present.Currency symbols on the AltGr layer (after already having pressed AltGr-F) will be uncomfortable to reach.The currency layer is not well designed - currency symbols should NOT depend on wether Shift is pressed - that WILL be an annoyance. The Greek layer is obviously incomplete: it is missing SIX letters (out of 24½). The more I look at this, the more things I find to dislike, EVEN if we give this thing a pass on the location of the main letters of the alphabet (A-Z) and the numbers remaining on the Shift layer:
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