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Identify keyboard layouts supported by Touch Typing Tutorials #73

Open pcalves opened 9 years ago

pcalves commented 9 years ago

I just recently came across dwyl and it seems like an amazing little hub of activity. 💜 The Touch Typing section caught my attention right away, simply because that's a skill I've been meaning to learn for some time now.

Here's the thing: all tutorials listed there seem pretty solid, but, I can only use Keybr, as it's the only one that allows switching between different keyboard layouts. It's not even a matter of QWERTY/DVORAK: German, French and Portuguese keyboards, among others, have subtle changes in their layouts that make using either other tutorial (Typing Club, BBC) impossible.

So, maybe there should be some way to let people know right away which layouts are supported in each tutorial. Maybe using flag emojis (🇬🇧, 🇺🇸, 🇵🇹, etc.), but I'm not sure how widely supported those are. Anyway, it's a small thing, but one I would've found useful. 😊

iteles commented 9 years ago

@pcalves That's a great idea, thank you!

We'd certainly welcome a PR to include that information and any other great tutorials you might come across if you have some time :blush:

Thanks again for alerting us to this :+1:

nelsonic commented 9 years ago

@pcalves excellent observation! we very much want to support an international audience. Please pull request and we will gladly merge! :+1:

pcalves commented 9 years ago

Thanks for the words of encouragement @iteles & @nelsonic 🙏 working on it but flag emoji support is kind of iffy, probably better to stick to plain old text for now.

iteles commented 9 years ago

@pcalves So far we've found that using markdown for flags is the only consistently supported way of showing them but unfortunately not all countries are supported. Não ter uma bandeira Portuguesa é uma afronta mas enfim :wink:

Whatever you think is best will be wonderful, thanks again! :star2:

nelsonic commented 9 years ago

@diasdavid shared a great Touch Typing link: http://www.ratatype.com/ ( this morning in https://gitter.im/require-lx/community )