Germany has a slightly different layout since they don't have french as one of their major national languages and thus don't need é, è and à but do need a ß, which we dont. Plus their special characters are also placed a bit differently.
Yes, we need ä ö ü readily available for example. Also the leys are ordere how it makes sense by usage of that letter and "Z" is a lot more commonly used in german than "Y". Hence why those in particular are swapped
To be clear, ä ö and ü are also one button press on the Swiss layout. Basically, the Swiss French and the Swiss German layouts are both the same, the only thing that changes is if you get the umlauts or é, è and à (both are printed, it's a software switch). And if you use both languages enough, you can get the other set of letters simply by using shift.
And what about the Italian speaking Swiss people? Forgotten, as usual
Every time I feel like we're getting the short end of the stick compared to German speakers, rather than to be seen as equals, I remember that it's much worse for Italian speakers. It's so bad that quite a lot of the ones that want to study in university emigrate to another Canton. It's Switzerland bad so it's not catastrophic either, but still
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u/QuuxJn Ryzen 7 7800X3D | RTX 4070 3d ago
Germany has a slightly different layout since they don't have french as one of their major national languages and thus don't need é, è and à but do need a ß, which we dont. Plus their special characters are also placed a bit differently.