• ChaoticNeutralCzech
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        1 year 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...
        
        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          That makes a lot of sense. I guess in a combat situation it might help to have some distance between the letters though.

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            1 year ago

            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.