We fixed this last week, and it wasn’t a lot of work. After seeing the Medium bug reports filed in, and having remembered once asking to change what happens when you press Ctrl+S, I figured it out without much trouble.

But I happen to be Polish, and I went through all of the above — learning to touch type on my mom’s typewriter, owning early PCs with American keyboards, rewiring my muscle memory for the Left Alt first, and the Right Alt second… and in the same muscle memory, putting Ctrl+S early on, and then replacing it with Command+S as I switched to Macs.

Much has changed in Poland since the 1980s. In 1989, Communism fell. Computers are now imported legally by individuals and companies alike. Today’s Windows and Mac machines in Poland are bought new, fully support Polish, and the operating systems themselves are properly localized. If you open up system preferences, though, you will still see the programmer’s layout there, and it’s still the most commonly used of the two.