On 01/01/2019 11:37 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
Those who think that being able to type other languages is important, should support this keyboard. I guess that "Knott" indicates scots ancestors
I have seen my last name in both Irish and Scottish name books, but not English. However, as far as I know, my ancestors came from England. I like Guinness, but not Scotch. ;-)
The bilingual keyboard is apparently an instantiation of an ISO standard where the US keyboard is an ANSI standard. <https://deskthority.net/wiki/ANSI_vs_ISO> By default, I'd like to conform to ISO vs ANSI since I'm not a US Citizen (even so, I once was a member of an ANSI committee).
I have a U.S. keyboard, configured to use U.S. International layout, which provides some more characters, but with the U.S. layout. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key#US-International Incidentally, back in the late '90s, I worked at IBM in Markham. Part of my work was testing the new systems on OS/2, Windows 95 & NT, with both English and French keyboards. There were many occasions when I'd be working with the wrong language keyboard.