My reading of the admin note suggests otherwise. A relatively conservative default that most can live with sounds English Dvorak to me.
Not if you use multiple computers, or donāt even have a fixed one, but plug your keyboard into other peopleās computers. But youād be right to say this is not a common use case.
Iām a Dvorak user writing plenty of Hungarian. My OS layout has been QWERTY since the dawn of time. I know a lot of other Dvorak users who write non-english, with a QWERTY OS layout, and use compose keys, macros and whatnot, because that gives them much more flexibility on where to put their national symbols.
If you look at localized Dvorak layouts such as BĆ©po, youāll notice that it moves quite a number of symbols compared to the traditional Dvorak. So if you are a French Dvorak user, you are likely using BĆ©po. I donāt think we should consider that under the same hat as Dvorak.
Thus, the safest bet is English Dvorak labels, as far as labels are concerned, because localized Dvorak is too different, and fails the āstandardā and ārelatively conservativeā parts of the admin note.
We donāt have 105 keys, though. As for laptops: at work, we use Lenovos and MacBooks, for both of them, those who want a Hungarian layout, have to ask for a Hungarian keyboard, so these do not support multiple layouts with the same hardware. (Where Iām counting keycaps as part of the hardware, even if a replacable part.)
What I donāt understand is, why is it a problem to have English Dvorak keycaps? You canāt engrave national symbols on it, because thereās not enough space, nor keys, and too many variations anyway. Once the symbols are ironed out, we can figure out how to match it in firmware, and what OS layout it should assume.
But, to be honest, I fail to see what the problem is. Take Hungarian: if the OS layout is US QWERTY, ;
sends ;
. If it is Hungarian, the same key inputs Ć©
. If the keyboardio assumes an US QWERTY layout, if I switch it to HU QWERTZ, then what used to input ;
will input Ć©
. Thatās what Iād expect. Thatās what happens on every other keyboard, because the keyboard still sends the same code, as it does not know the layout was changed.
;
/ Ć©
may not be at the same position than on a traditional, non-split, staggered layout, but this is a split keyboard, so changes are to be expected. Same for the Y
/ Z
swap. I change the OS layout, the firmware sends the same code, OS translates it to a different symbol - as one would expect.
I donāt really see a problem with this.