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Personally I just use a US layout with alt gr for æøå. The Norwegian layout is very awkward for C style languages(and the unix shell), I find. The US one feels more natural, which makes sense considering the modern US layout is very similar to the layout of the teletypes used at bell labs in the 70s.

Took a while to get used to it, but only a month or so to be just as fast as I was previously on the Norwegian one.

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My reason for learning the US layout back in the days was because of Counter Strike. For some reason it didn't adhere to your OS keyboard settings when chatting, so trying to write ø always became ; etc, so we kinda after a while just learned how it worked (didn't even know it was a US layout thing to look up, just bruteforced and memorized).

The danish layout is brain damaged indeed. My greatest daily annoyance is shift+7 to get "/", when navigating around folders in the terminal, but on the other hand I have ~30 years of built up muscle memory at this point.

I use US layout instead of danish as well, it's much better for development, and æøå is easily available on Mac:

æ = option + '

ø = option + o

å = option + a

This right here is the best solution. Been using that for maybe 15 years.

Agreed, takes honestly a very short time to get used to it but the benefits are large, as a programmer at least. I don't think I would ever go back to the other layout again.

Yeah. Norwegian living in the UK, and I use a US layout as well. I do have a keybinding to swap to Norwegian keymap that I use occasionally, but it doesn't see much use.

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