How often do most people use § and ½ !? Is a dedicated key really necessary?

I once had a laptop with (I think) Swedish kb (that I bought during my studies in Latvia), but it wasn't this loaded. Judging by the comments, this seems to be a mixed Scandinavian kb layout, for multiple languages.

I'm guessing (not sure) that AltGr, visible in the picture, switches between the two options like Shift would. Shift still switches case.

I think the main reason they didn't make an umlaut modifier is that ä is considered a distinct letter from a. It would be like asking why have a key for w ("double u") when it could have been typed as uu. Not a perfect analogy but the best I can think of right now.

Swiss here, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

In all seriousness; it's for german, french and italian. Guess it was just determined to use the limited keys more effieciently in typing. And some are combinators and 9 of 10 people don't know which or what or how.

https://kbdlayout.info/KBDSG/

Ah, btw, we can only type uppercase ÄÖÜ via capslock.

I'm a German that uses an US keyboard with the US intl layout. I think it solves all of my keyboard needs: I have the benefits of the US layout for programming and access to all common umlauts.r RAlt+S = ẞ e.g. https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tastaturbelegung_US-International

Øh, really?

That would be Norwegian I assume. They are pronounced different in Danish.

It's easy. If you're swedish, look for the swedish letters. If you're danish, look at the first letter, and if you're norwegian look at the second.

Accurate

While "MØ" is her initials, it's actually also a word in Danish for "Maiden". It's an old word, not used commonly.

The Google Translate text-to-speak is fairly accurate: https://translate.google.com/?sl=da&tl=en&text=M%C3%B8&op=translate

Ørsted is also pronounced fairly accurately: https://translate.google.com/?sl=da&tl=en&text=%C3%98rsted&op=translate

Well the vowel Ø represents OE in Danish.

It's a noise that is between the English noises "oo" and "u".

That's simply wrong (in Danish)

Like burn?

"Learn" and "bird" are pronounced very differently depending on the accent of English. Wiktionary has "learn" RP pronunciation listed as lɜːn and American as lɝn, although personally I don't believe in ɝ so I would write it as lɹn and bɹd.

Slight rant about American English IPA, but Wiktionary even has American "bird" listed as bɜɹd, which is frankly ridiculous. Say bɜɹd out loud and it sounds absolutely insane. Be'rd. Nobody says bɜɹd, it's gotta be bɹd. English spelling treats R as a consonant, but American English functionally treats it like a vowel. If we spelled with R the same way it's pronounced, it would be brd, lrn, teachr, wrking, etc. Not suggesting a spelling reform, because the current system works so well for uniting different accents of English, but it seriously bugs me when people talk about how American R (ɹ) is a consonant. It's not!