[stunpix]

> It’s also fast and efficient to type on the keyboard. Plus it feels very natural.

If you are solely an English writer then yes. Using md with some languages will quickly turn you into its hater. Certain formatting symbols aren’t easily accessible in some layouts, like backticks for code or ^ for superscript. Some symbols require extra keystrokes like ~ in german. Some layouts will require finger yoga exercises. Basically, any other text markups based on English (including LaTeX) are unfriendly to other languages. Thus an abnormal popularity of md across the apps makes them much less friendly for non-English users. Mobile typing pushes this pain to another level.

[codetrotter]

Yeah. My native language has some very awkward placements of certain symbols as well actually. But I chose to sacrifice the letters æ, ø, å years ago by switching to using US-based layouts on my computers. Sometimes I use Dvorak layouts (even have a custom one I made for my mechanical keyboard that I sometimes use). Most of the time I write on a computer in recent years has been using the keyboard on my MacBook Pro computers with just US QWERTY. I very rarely type anything in my native tongue on the computers. Mainly just on the phone. And I am 97% sure that the times I need æ ø å on my macOS laptops I can long-press or option click some of the related characters like a and o.

For a while, when I originally switched away from my native language QWERTY variant, I would sometimes need æ ø å on the computer and I would Google aelig oslash and aring respectively and find the symbols for those letters that way :p