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Re: URL characters
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lugnet.publish
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Mon, 6 Mar 2000 05:10:07 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Anders Isaksson writes:
> Sometimes I even think the French have done the right thing (for once) with
> their keyboards:
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> They have the upper row (with numbers and special characters) turned upside
> down, so you use Shift to get the digits, and all the special characters are
> reached unshifted! The numerical keyboard is always normal, so you have both
> digits and everything else without shifting (OTOH, they have swapped a few
> letters, just to make sure they differ from everybody else :-)
That sounds really useful! Although, as Todd mentions, would take a while to
get used to...
> If you want a really different experience, you should try a Russian keyboard,
> with both Cyrillic characters, and our ones (but on completely different
> locations!)
Or try a hebrew keyboard. The english characters are on the same places. But
when you switch the drive to hebrew, you get totally different letters by
typing the same sequence - ie, every key can spew out at least two different
characters, one english, one hebrew. (Every key also has both characters
printed on it. Some keyboards have the hebrew in red for easier typing). When
you are in hebrew configuration and press Shift plus a letter, you get the
same thing as you would get in english (e.g. clicking Shift + 'Alef' results
in a capital T).
But there are a few probs with this. For starters, english has 26 characters
while hebrew has 27 (if you count end letters). So they put one letter on the
":" key. Well, now you can't print a ";" without switching to english and back!
For some bizarre reason, the people who configured the keyboard decided this
needs to be fixed, and fixed it by switching around some letters and
punctuation marks.
So on the comma and period keys (to the right of M, bottom row) there are two
letters, while on the Q and W keys there's a "'" and a slash. Where did the
period go? Instead of the slash key. And the comma? On the "'" key. What about
the ";", which started all the problems? Ah, that goes on the tilde key... ;-)
And to complicate the whole thing, Mac keyboards switch comma and "'" from the
PC keyboards' configuration. But they look the same when printed on the
keyboard.
Ugh!
(Sorry for boring you with these keyboard woes. Me thinks I should go to sleep
now.)
> (Ah, the memories...)
Tell me about it...
-Shiri
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| On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 05:10:07 GMT "Shiri Dori" <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote concerning 'Re: URL characters': (...) I belive the basic hebrew keyboard configuration comes from hebrew typewriters - which had the comma and semicolon on the upper left side (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| Todd Lehman skrev i meddelandet ... (...) Agreed, but in my vocabulary 'clueless' rings harsher than 'chauvinist', am I totally out of line there? (...) I don't have all the messages in the thread left (and am off-line, as usual), but I'm sure my (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)
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