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Same for German and Swiss layouts *sigh. After many years, I am now capable of typing curly and angular brackets by holding left shift with my small finger, left alt with my left thumb, and the corresponding symbol key with my right little finger, without loosing the ten-finger-stance on the keyboard.

(on our keyboards, left shift+alt is an alternative for the right "Alt Gr" key)

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If you still can, I highly recommend switching to international.

The main benefit is, how much better default keyboard shortcuts in many Apps become.

Tab switching with CMD+{} and back/forward CMD+[] can be comfortably executed. There are no more inaccessible shortcuts such as Shift+CMD+? or changing playback speed on Youtube.

Specials are somewhat annoying to type with `alt+u aou` and `alt + s`, but nothing I couldn't get used to.

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