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Danish & Polish (QWERTY) Layout

US-standard QWERTY layout as base with a third and fourth layer available through the AltGr/⌥ Option key and AltGr/⌥ Option+⇧ Shift.

These additional layers provide support for Danish12 and Polish34 languages, and subjective selection of special characters, and common mathematical symbols from Danish, Polish (Programmers) and US-International56 layouts for both Windows and Mac.

PC

Windows sources:

  • KBDDAPLP with default system code page (1252) of the Danish (Denmark) language for non-Unicode applications
  • KBDPLDAP with default system code page (1250) of the Polish (Poland) language for non-Unicode applications

For convenience builds are added to GitHub Releases.

Mac

MacOS source:

 

Danish & Polish (Colemak) Layout

Poor man's Colemak layout that provides support for Danish and Polish languages.

PC

Windows sources:

  • KBDDAPLC with default system code page (1252) of the Danish (Denmark) language for non-Unicode applications
  • KBDPLDAC with default system code page (1250) of the Polish (Poland) language for non-Unicode applications

For convenience builds are added to GitHub Releases.

Mac

MacOS source:

 

Compare layouts

The Colemak layout is designed to make typing more efficient and comfortable by placing the most frequent letters on the home row. Since the layout was designed for english language, the following diagrams help understand if the goal is also met in other languages.

Diagrams of letter frequencies on QWERTY Diagrams of letter frequencies on Colemak
English letters
Danish letters
Polish letters

 

Footnotes

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY#Danish

  2. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/globalization/keyboards/kbdda

  3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY#Polish

  4. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/globalization/keyboards/kbdpl1

  5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY#US-International

  6. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/globalization/keyboards/kbdusx