I always wondered why does Apple include a key for § in all their keyboards for my country of Portugal.
The same applies to the shift character ±.
It doesn’t seem to have any use within macOS, although I use it to create special keyboard shortcuts, since no software seems to make use of it.
I understand not all hardware has this key layout, but it is prominent here, on the top left of the keyboard, before the key 1.
Like this:
I’m from Portugal and all keyboards here have this key. I don’t work in the legal system but I have never seen a legal document with this symbol.
It seems to be used by other EU countries and probably added to the Portuguese keyboards by association.
Is there a reason Apple includes this key that’s related to a software feature?