That's a specious argument IMO. The same case can be made for the pipe/vertical bar character. So I guess they have to remove that from the language too so Mac users won't be mildly inconvenienced.

You do not have to type a space though to get a pipe character. Tilde and backtick are the two characters which are hardest to write on a Swedish keyboard.

I actually use a Swedish keyboard and I've never found these dead keys to be a problem myself.

Vertical bar/pipe isn't shown on most European Macbook keyboards, nor is backslash in fact, so I guess backslash has to be removed too.

I'm just saying it's not a great argument.