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Add to SafariAzerty is the French typewriter keyboard layout.
You have to shift the top row to get numbers, unshifted keys there are used for common punctuation characters (&"'-=) (parentheses included!) and accented (diacritic) letters (éèçà, plus ù below). ^ and ¨ have an easy access too.
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Pros
Pro Nearly unavoidable for French people
Most of us learned to type with this kind of keyboard, switching can be hard, and impractical to type French.
Pro HJKL intact for vim
Vim programmers are going to want their navigation keys to relate to each other in a sensible fashion. QWERTY and azerty seem to be the only games in town for this
Cons
Con Bad for programming
But you get used to it... :-)
Characters very common in programming languages, like [] {} ~#|`@ are reachable only via the infamous AltGr key on Windows computers (and perhaps Linux ones; not sure for Macs).
With practice, you type them without thinking, but it is still a rather impractical gymnastics.
Con CTRL + / is only accessible by numpad
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