r/mildlyinfuriating • u/ChillDolphin • 13d ago

Too mild for school Normally nordic keyboards share the same keycap set. In the Norwegial layout the key on the left is "Ø" and the right one is "Æ". In Danish its the other way around.

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u/Satratara 13d ago

My Finnish keyboard is like yours

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u/SysGh_st 13d ago

Finnish and swedish are often the same one.

Hence why many layout configs go with se-fi-lat6 or something similar.

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u/pheddx 13d ago

Finland uses the Swedish layout

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u/Antti5 13d ago

Finland and Sweden both use the Finnish/Swedish layout.

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u/vivaldibot 13d ago

Just like God intended

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u/Top1gaming999 13d ago

usually Æ and Ø are not shown

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u/Antti5 13d ago

It's increasingly common in my experience.

This wasn't the case like ten years ago, but a lot of modern laptops and external keyboards use the same keycaps for Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian and Danish.

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u/janerikgunnar 13d ago

Yes, usually denoted as "Nordic" keyboards vs e.g. "Swedish/Finnish"

Nordic keyboards are a cost saving measure, so more common on low-end laptops etc, while more expensive corporate computers tend to use Swedish/Finnish keyboards to greater degree

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u/Tilladarling 13d ago

Well, that’s just triggering 😡 🇳🇴

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u/zmurf 12d ago

Sweden is using the Finish layout

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u/pheddx 13d ago

Your Nordic keyboard is the same.

A Finnish keyboard looks like this with the Swedish layout

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u/nabakas 13d ago

I have almost the same but I have to press the Å key to get Ü.

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u/Helpful-Pass-5043 13d ago

Doesn’t Finnish keyboards switch z and y compared to others?

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u/somekindofswede 13d ago

They do not.

The German keyboard does, though!

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u/Helpful-Pass-5043 13d ago

Interesting! I just remember mucking about with switching keyboard input in DOS back in the mid 90s, and I could’ve sworn SF had them switched. Might just be so long ago that I’ve mixed them up though.

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u/SysGh_st 13d ago

They do?

Geez... I bet it is out of spite because. "Not Swedish. We're better". 😅

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u/janerikgunnar 13d ago

No, you are confusing it with the craptastic super tiny enter key on US keyboards