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Re: Keyboards
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lugnet.general
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date: 
Tue, 26 Feb 2002 22:39:31 GMT
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Check out this link. You can view the keyboard layouts for mant different
languages.

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/keyboards/keyboards.asp

The whole site is really great if you're doing any multilingual or
multinational programming.

-- mrgraff

In lugnet.general, Pedro Silva writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > In lugnet.trains, Pedro Silva writes:
> > > and a little PS: check the keyboard, there is something wrong with the
> > > "y's"... :-P
> > 
> > Bet you a dollar he's typing on a non german keyboard and is a touch typist.
> > German keyboards have the Y and Z transposed from English/American ones and
> > if you don't remember that you tend to transpose. I know I did when I was
> > using them during my european travels.
> 
> Aha!...
> Apparently, not only the German. I can now see why sometimes my own keyboard
> starts writing some "peculiar" characters. I knew there had to be a rational
> explanation!
> Is there a different convention for each country? I understand that there
> used to be a Portuguese Standard keyboard for typwriters, but it has long
> been forgotten. Do keyboards work like that for computers either?
> 
> > Color me jealous.
> 
> And me... <Sigh!>
> 
> 
> Pedro
> (please cross post if appropriate, I did not know where to set the FUT...)



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(...) Aha!... Apparently, not only the German. I can now see why sometimes my own keyboard starts writing some "peculiar" characters. I knew there had to be a rational explanation! Is there a different convention for each country? I understand that (...) (25 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.general)

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