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by jagrsw 991 days ago
Quick nitpick on Polish keyboard layouts. The "Polish (standard)" is more often referred to as the "typist" layout in Poland. IBM's docs say this is required for government contracts. I haven't seen it in any dev or home environments, but it wouldn't surprise me if some compliance-focused IT departments in the government enforce it.

<Note the duplicated entries for two of the diacritics that are used in Polish.> - did the author conflate ż with ź? A rookie mistake! :)

I'm running the 'pl' layout on my Linux box. The Alt(Gr) layer outputs the following: ≠²³¢€½§·«»–śðæŋ’ə…łźć„”ńµ≤≥. Some are expected (diacritics, €), but the presence of characters like ¢, ð, æ, ŋ, and ə is somewhat baffling, I wonder what's the history here.