• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de
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    11 months ago

    Probably yes, those are the letters in GPS coordinates they might need to input. However, the standard with global coordinates as two floating point values is that Ⓝ and Ⓔ are positive while Ⓢ and Ⓦ are negative so they could just use that.

    Anyway, they should have just used a QWERTY keyboard and added an extra N on top for the logical layout of

      ┌N┐
    Q W┼E R T...
     A└S┘D F ...
      Z X C V...
    
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        I think the current layout cannot be much worse. The positions of the letters don’t correspond to cardinal directions at all. In a combat scenario, you don’t want to type on a non-standard keypad. To make the NWES keys stand out as they should, they could be mildly arrow-shaped like ⭔ or ⌂. Keys are not easily confused if they have special shapes.