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Offline ed_avis

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AZERTY news
« on: Thu, 21 January 2016, 04:00:56 »
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Offline bocahgundul

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Re: AZERTY news
« Reply #1 on: Thu, 21 January 2016, 04:13:48 »
Azhdar needs to see this
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Offline TalkingTree

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Re: AZERTY news
« Reply #2 on: Thu, 21 January 2016, 07:52:07 »
QWERTY isn't much better, but I guess standardization helps.
Every issue addressed to AZERTY can be also applied to QZERTY which was, in fact, dropped by us (italians).
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Offline azhdar

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Re: AZERTY news
« Reply #3 on: Thu, 21 January 2016, 07:57:00 »
I've heard about it already.
I've say multiple times that Azerty is far from being a perfect layout, but I have experience on it and don't want to re-learn typing especially when my job require to use other people azerty keyboards daily.
While I haven't tried it, I think Bépo: http://bepo.fr/wiki/Accueil would be much better than azerty, sadly this layout doesn't exist with quality keycaps.
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Offline Brammm87

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Re: AZERTY news
« Reply #4 on: Thu, 21 January 2016, 12:34:42 »
As someone who grew up with Belgian Azerty, I don't mind. I switched to QWERTY about 6 months ago. Not regretting it.
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Offline jacobolus

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Re: AZERTY news
« Reply #5 on: Thu, 21 January 2016, 19:11:04 »
http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/21/10805562/france-change-keyboard-layout-azerty

AZERTY is an even stupider layout than QWERTY, if that’s possible, and represents the hegemony of 19th century American typewriters plus throwing in a slight twist, just to be French.

They should scrap it and start over from first principles.
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Offline jamster

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Re: AZERTY news
« Reply #6 on: Thu, 21 January 2016, 21:06:40 »
Quote from: jacobolus on Thu, 21 January 2016, 19:11:04

They should scrap it and start over from first principles.

That would be voice recognition or brainwave scanning. Screw this keyboard malarkey.
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Offline jacobolus

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Re: AZERTY news
« Reply #7 on: Sat, 23 January 2016, 02:54:30 »
Shameless puns from the NYT headline writers: “France Plans a New Keyboard to Shift Control to Typists”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/23/world/europe/france-plans-a-new-keyboard-to-shift-control-to-typists.html
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