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by zokier 5404 days ago
Based on those numbers I gathered some stats about keyboard layouts:

* 18% of all characters are symbols, 12% are spaces and 70% are alphabetic

* 20% of all non-space characters are symbols and 80% are alphabetic.

* US kb layout users need to use shift for 64% of symbols

* Finnish/Swedish kb layout users need to use shift for 73% of symbols and AltGr for 7% of symbols.

* Fi/Swe layout users thus need to use 25% more modifer keys for symbols.

Conclusion: Fi/Swe layout sucks.

edit: https://gist.github.com/1205728 python script used to get these numbers (percentages calculated with OOo Calc).