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I don't need to learn them all, I just need to know the ones I expect I need to type in for the foreseeable future. I might even forget them later (as I've forgotten a lot of LaTeX mappings, fortunately there's a cheat sheet). You're just repeating your other points about the problems that come from having so many languages, which I mostly agree with, but typing at least is not really an issue, which is all my point is. The issue is: "do I know Arabic?" not "I know Arabic, can I type it?" As for your experience with French, maybe the AZERTY layout is just inherently bad, but how much slower is it really? Typing your example sentence with my compose key takes me about 3x longer than ignoring the accented characters entirely, which is more than I expected, though I'm very unpracticed. With Japanese, which I'm even more of a noob at, nevertheless the overhead is smaller. If I wanted to type 'purple', I hit a chord to enter JP IME mode if I'm not in it already, type 'murasaki' (the romanized version of the word) at full speed, and leave it as むらさき or select from kanji completions to get 紫 or maybe I needed it to be in katakana so I hit F7, finally I commit it and move on. It may seem like a lot but whatever the case it's a really tiny overhead from just typing 'murasaki'. In practice though looking at source code from Japanese developers I see a mix of full English (maybe some Japanese comments, maybe not), some mix of Japanese but always using romanized symbol names, and full-on variable and function names are in actual Japanese. Because the overhead of typing is so small though, I don't have a preference for the second or third option, they're both fine, though of course selfishly I'd love for the whole world to understand and use English exclusively. For the French case, even with an overhead of 3x in the worst case, I wouldn't object to a variable with an é in it. |