If you spend any amount of time working in foreign countries, is getting used to the damned keyboard the toughest thing about your travels?

LOL

Umlaut-paranoia?

take a laptop maybe? I’ve spent most of my time abroad in France, and it wasn’t the French keyboard i found most exasperating, it was the…

Love those guys though…Paris is at the top of my favorite cities in the world list

no, there are things much harder than that when living abroad, though azerty keyboards are pretty annoying. I am actually used to the US layout (instead of UK) but have no problem with German and Polish keyboards for example, which just have the Y and Z switched. And I obviously have to change the Greek one since it’s a different alphabet altogether. But the only real problem was Belgium, where they use azertys.

@avalmez: unfortunately, taking a laptop works only at my hotel. At job sites, I’m generally not allowed to bring anything that can be used to hold data or take pictures (thumb drives, personal laptops, cell phones, etc.)

I actually had a foreign keyboard-related problem when I was trying to check my email on my friend’s laptop in Scotland earlier this year. I had a symbol in my password which I had memorized only by the number key that it was on. It was definitely NOT the alternate character for that number on her keyboard, haha, and it took a while before I could deduce what the hell symbol was in my password.

I googled “US keyboard” to figure it out…

I had trouble getting used to the keyboard when I had a job using a Solaris O/S and a slightly different keyboard.