The key to the right of Å is you looking at this keyboard.
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We're all just going to ignore the ,|'/` key?
the left side is equally cursed

How often do most people use § and ½ !? Is a dedicated key really necessary?
I work as an engineer in an governmental capacity. Use § daily when writing letters citing legislation.
§ is common in meeting minutes and legal texts. dunno about ½ though
Somebody is going to comment that it's the loss button any minute now.
Similiar to Swiss one but worse.

Ok I'm probably the idiot here, but why not just make one key umlauts, and one for both directions of apostrophe, and then make it a key combo with the standard vowel?
Like how shift+a = A, it would be umlaut+a = ä, and shift+umlaut+a = Ä?
How do the real keys (pic) even work?
I'm guessing (not sure) that AltGr, visible in the picture, switches between the two options like Shift would. Shift still switches case.
I think the main reason they didn't make an umlaut modifier is that ä is considered a distinct letter from a. It would be like asking why have a key for w ("double u") when it could have been typed as uu. Not a perfect analogy but the best I can think of right now.
Swiss here, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
In all seriousness; it's for german, french and italian. Guess it was just determined to use the limited keys more effieciently in typing. And some are combinators and 9 of 10 people don't know which or what or how.
Ah, btw, we can only type uppercase ÄÖÜ via capslock.
I'm a German that uses an US keyboard with the US intl layout. I think it solves all of my keyboard needs: I have the benefits of the US layout for programming and access to all common umlauts.r RAlt+S = ẞ e.g. https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tastaturbelegung_US-International
This looks like a Norwegian/Swedish keyboard. What’s infuriating about it?
It's a nordic keyboard, and it's infuriating that it's imposible to tell which key is Æ and which is Ø. Just decide on one key for each for f..ks sake.
It's easy. If you're swedish, look for the swedish letters. If you're danish, look at the first letter, and if you're norwegian look at the second.
It’s easy.
Just be Swedish.
As they say in Sweden, Scandinavian is one language, except that the Norwegians can’t spell it and the Danes can’t pronounce it.
So it's the danish who are the odd ones.
Hey, it's Danish too!
The infuriating part is that Danes and Norwegians couldn't agree on which buttons to place the Æ and Ø. Even worse is that usually the Norwegian layout is more pronounced/better positioned for backlighting making the Danish Æ and Ø look like an afterthought.
As someone who isn't clued up on Nordic languages and has no idea how any of this is supposed to be pronounced, my brain just went to the overtones for help
Æ = Like the A in (American) "asshole"
Å = Like the A in (British) "awful".
Ø = Like the U in (American) "Ugly".
As a Scandinavian, one of my biggest pet peeves is when someone uses Ø instead of O because they think it looks cool. Sure, whatever, but it makes reading it really insufferable. Imagine if someone typed your name as UnduBrani and expected you to pronounce it the same while not tripping over decades of reading practice.
Ø = Like the U in "Ugly".
Not like German Ö? Or French "eu" as in l'heur or l'Europe? I can't seem to find any English words with the sound I'm thinking of though. In some dialects "curry" might possibly be approximated as [körri] but that's not very helpful... (Coincidentally, Ö is also the face I made when I read this)
Øh, really?
Different countries have different languages, alphabets and keyboard layouts. Scandinavian countries keyboards are quite commonly produced together because they share most but not all of the letters, symbols and positions. This looks pretty standard to me.
Edit: As a user from respective country you learn fast to read automatically the position for shared keys before you learn touch typing or looking for an uncommonly used symbol. The real annoyance is when laptop makers switch up key positions because they think they know better.
This is because someone can't be arsed to make a dedicated Norwegian/Swedish/Danish keyboard. Norway and Denmark uses æ/ø/å. But ofc not the same key position. Sweden ä/ö/å. The same goes for several of the other keys. What they type depends on language used
How do you pronounce that letter? There's a Danish band I've been getting into lately, MØL, but I don't know how to say it. I've been saying "mole" in my head, but I doubt that's right. It seems to get romanized as "oe" so would it be pronounced "mo-el"?
The Ø is pronounced as eg. the vowel sound in "learn" or the vowel sound in "bird".
Like burn?
In Norwegian we'll sometimes write burn as børn in very informal settings or for fun so that's my go to example :-)
Basically its the sound you make just before puking, just without the gargling. Do a video search to confirm
The musician MØ was asked how to pronounce her stage name once, and she pointed out its just her initials (Marie Ørsted) so there's not really a right pronunciation to MØ.
I still don't have a clue how Ø is pronounced, like in Ørsted.
Apropriate time to say the Norwegian alphabet is the best?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f488uJAQgmw (Funny song about why Norways alphabet is the best)
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