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Re: URL characters
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lugnet.publish
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Mon, 6 Mar 2000 15:38:05 GMT
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On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 05:10:07 GMT "Shiri Dori" <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote
concerning 'Re: URL characters':
> 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.
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> 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... ;-)
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> 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.
I belive the basic hebrew keyboard configuration comes from hebrew
typewriters - which had the comma and semicolon on the upper left side
(Q and W IIRC), and didn't have the backwards quote (`) at all!
Someone needs to redesign the hebrew keyboard, and make it a dvorak
one too :)
Dan
(yay, finally a real email client, go emacs! :)
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| (...) That sounds really useful! Although, as Todd mentions, would take a while to get used to... (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)
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