Comment by jillesvangurp

Having moved around Europe, I stick to US international. As a programmer, all these weird keyboard layouts that put their locally preferred characters in places where a US keyboard layout has all the things that programmers use all the time, is just really inconvenient. I've met more than a few Germans, Finns, and Swedish that map their local keyboards to US English for this reason. Keeping the local layout is just begging for repetitive strain injuries. Having to use 3 fingers to produce a { or a [ is just not acceptable or workable. And mostly the working language in a lot of companies is English anyway.