The tragedy of non-English keyboards.
The Russian alphabet has more letters. So it needs more buttons. Understandable.
Apple decided to take away the comma and dot (instead of e.g., second Shift). Bad, but unfortunately, it’s been happening on physical keyboards for a long time.
But iPads have this great feature: you can slide down on a key to get extra characters!
Well, which characters did they decide to add on extra keys?
- Em dash. Okay. fancy, but usable.
- Underscore. Not sure. For programmers?
- This guy—№. I am Russian, but I don’t remember the last time I used it.
- Backtick. Freaking backtick!
All this instead of an exclamation mark and a question mark. Really, who uses those?!
I know these keyboards are designed in the US. But please, please, please, consult at least one person that speaks the language before making a decision like this. I know Americans don’t care. But for the rest of us, it’s life and death.