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Poll: Lemmys outside the Anglosphere, do you have your computer set to English or your mother tongue? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] oats@piefed.zip 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

When I started computering, there where no localised systems. When they started translating, the German was often misleading, incomplete, or just didn't fit in the button or whatever. So I stuck with English. Somewhere along the line I switched to en_UK, though.

And yeah, in this day and age I have no clue how good the translations are, because I never checked them.

[–] wintermute@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Same here. My native language is Spanish, and the localized terms always felt weird to me.

I also always use English keyboard layout, regardless of what is printed on the keys.

The only thing I change is date format, because US date format hurts my brain.

[–] oats@piefed.zip 3 points 4 days ago

I do use German key layout, as I'm used to that for decades.

And German number, currency, date, address formats, as the English are just whack

[–] Katrisia@lemmy.today 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What about the 'ñ'?

[–] wintermute@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I have a second keyboard layout configured, and I switch to it for the ‘ñ’ and the tildes when needed.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

In Czech we have a 'prpgrammers' variant of they keyboard layout, that is in fact the US layout but types the diacritics if you type ctrl+alt+key. Spanish might have a coders variant too

[–] wintermute@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 hours ago

Interesting! I’ll look into that, thanks!

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

or just didn't fit in the button

Most German problem ever lmao. I just noticed you have Pos1 for Home, which makes sense ig, I was just never expecting a numeral on a key that isn't a number key

[–] oats@piefed.zip 2 points 4 days ago

The end key becomes ende. Over 30% increase!