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> You can remap keys on any keyboard layout

"Yeah but" now you're mucking around with software. It's not simply plug-and-play.

From its first paragraph, this 2012 article acknowledges that it was sparked by a HN discussion¹ about another article² and that the HN discussion already covered the remapping solutions you are again proposing 12 years later.

This article offers the Japanese keyboard idea as an alternative to remapping.

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1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3976669

2. https://avdi.codes/underscores-are-stupid/



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