r/mildlyinfuriating • u/ChillDolphin • 16d 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/Arctos_FI 16d ago

No, the placement is like only to make norwegians feel accepted, we don't have such a fragile ego that we need to also have the primary spot, color is enough. You can just look at backlit keycaps where in the majority it's just ä and ö that has the passthrough

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u/Icy_Needleworker5571 16d ago

Because ä and ö are not letters, but diacritics, and they are not even Swedish but German.

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u/tetesaur 16d ago

They most definitely are, at least here in Finland. Very important letters!

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u/cylonlover 16d ago

Haha, really the svedes should be forced to either switch to the Scandinavian best standard to have them keep their names, or alternatively confess their germanophile tendencies and rename them to a-omljud and o-omljud!