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AZERTY keyboard layout
Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2010–2023), in 9 threads.
People raised many different problems with AZERTY keyboard layout, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 10 complaints
- Typing on AZERTY layout was very painful and slow to learn at first2023-10-02
- Left shift key is the wrong size on European keyboards, hard to hit reliably2023-08-08
- Cannot type uppercase accented letters or French quotes without awkward workarounds2021-11-15
- Cannot type uppercase accented letters or French quotation marks, must rely on autocorrect2021-11-15
- Number and symbol keys need Shift, and common punctuation like period needs Shift, making typing awkward2020-04-28
- Can't type accented capitals like É, È or À on the layout2018-01-30
- Closing parenthesis key is out of reach, so user mistypes underscores instead2017-07-04
- Having to switch between AZERTY and QWERTY layouts on different computers2016-01-21
- Producing @ or {} requires hitting three keys, making programming painful2015-10-10
- Curly braces require a three-key combination, making coding awkward2010-11-09