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I think this is an interesting cultural difference.

There is such a thing as a Dutch keyboard layout and keyboard, but almost no one in the Netherlands uses them, as well as configuring one's system to be in Dutch, because it leads to such problems as described.

My entire system is configured in U.S. English, though most of the spelling I use is closer to U.K. English, but I find that it leads to the least problems in practice.

If it were configured to be Dutch, then troubleshooting would be a mess. — this is a common mentality in the Netherlands to never have any electronics or website configured to be Dutch, even when the option allow itself.

Special characters are usually input using the U.S. International layout which which allows one to type, say, “schöne scheiße”. quite easily.



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