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Coming up with a new layout is HARD :D

The main constraints of a Corne-style keyboard is that there are much less keys available than what's necessary to write any latin-script language besides English.

One of the main design principles I had was to push all accented characters on an accent layer, breaking with Bépo where almost all of them are directly accessible (but need a full-size keyboard to work), despite some characters like é or à being much more common than Z or K for example.

My main goal was to optimize for French first, English second. Home row is pretty good for both and based on the Bépo layout, except U which seems pretty useless in English. Top row is OK I guess. More skewed towards French, but still rather optimized for both. Bottom row is good for French despite keeping the ZXCV cluster, the right part is not great for English. W and K are pushed to slightly less accessible positions because they are basically never used in French. But they are relatively common in English. So IDK.

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[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I personally use Colemak with some tweaks (wide angle mod for people who know it, and I changed a few of the alt characters to my needs). I'm quite happy with it, and I write in both English and French

[–] boris@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you please share it somewhere?

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

You can have a look at this website: https://dreymar.colemak.org/

Very exhaustive, this should answer most of your questions, but feel free to comment if you have any!