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Norwegian. Many european countries use the same placement for semicolon. All the Scandinavian and Baltic countries, Germany and Netherlands to name a few.

Russia uses shift+4. Can't imagine how annoying that is.

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Russian keyboard layout does not have any Roman letters so apart from obscure even in their time, Soviet-devloped languages like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapira, reaching for shift+4 for ';' is going to be the least of your concerns if you try to write code using Russian layout.

Nitpick: Almost. There is a Dutch keyboard layout, but nobody uses it. Nobody, as in, there's more people in the Netherlands that use Dvorak than people that use the Dutch keyboard layout.

The Dutch commonly use the US keyboard layout, which makes sense because Dutch and English have the same alphabet.

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