It have been designed to accelerate the typing of the most frequently used English characters and some frequent English pairs of characters, like "th". These characters are different in other languages, and Dvorak don't take in account the accented characters. So, until someone designs keyboard layouts for specific languages, I will stick with the AZERTY (French) layout... Anyway, the idea is basically good, but actually impraticable: to be really efficient, if you write both in English and in French, for example (I do, I maintain my sites with both languages), in theory, you must learn a Dvorak layout for both languages... Plus the QWERTY and AZERTY layouts... Don't think about multi-lingual translators!
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It have been designed to accelerate the typing of the most frequently used English characters and some frequent English pairs of characters, like "th".
These characters are different in other languages, and Dvorak don't take in account the accented characters.
So, until someone designs keyboard layouts for specific languages, I will stick with the AZERTY (French) layout...
Anyway, the idea is basically good, but actually impraticable: to be really efficient, if you write both in English and in French, for example (I do, I maintain my sites with both languages), in theory, you must learn a Dvorak layout for both languages... Plus the QWERTY and AZERTY layouts... Don't think about multi-lingual translators!