EU KEYBOARD LAYOUT FOR MAC PC
Implementations in Linux produce a C with acute accentĪll known implementations follow the PC style tradition for the key betweenĬomparator of Different National Layouts on a Computer Keyboard. (it’s only used for the letter C with cedillaĪssignment). ( ◌̧ ) to the apostrophe dead key for no good reason Variations of this layout that either remove those diacritics or move them elsewhere.Īs if the above wasn’t enough, Microsoft’s implementation tacks on the cedilla diacritic This is so uncomfortable, private individuals have created Said diacritics), forcing the usage of two-keystroke combos to get the proper symbols: ( ") (which, to boot, don’t have an actual relation to Symbols (adirectional) apostrophe ( ') and (adirectional) quotation mark ( ◌̈) take the place of the extremely highly used ( ^), respectively, while the acute accent The addition of five dead keys is undeniably poorly done and further complicates actual usage: the graveĬircumflex ( ◌̂) accents take the places of the commonly used symbols despite readily available space remaining in the tertiary (AltGr) Hard-to-reach assignments that are not in line with the high degree of usage they would be expected to have, like Where they clearly don’t belong, like the letter C with cedilla Them are fine [for example: the vowels with acute accents, the letter eñe The arrangement of the extra characters that this layout does add is rather problematic, too while some of Symbols that are commonly used while writing in English in the United States (like It does not help matters that some typographical ) and the single low quotation mark ( ‚) are the most obvious ones.Languages, with inexplicable omissions even among this limited set the OE ligature Original layout’s assignments (see the SpanishĮxtended layout for one such example) here, several key assignments are altered (five typographical symbolsĭespite its moniker, this layout’s true coverage is limited to a few Germanic and Western European
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allows comparing the English (USA) national
IBM’s specification (locally hosted copy).Ĭomparator of Different National Layouts on a Computer Keyboard. Keyboards), there are two main traditions about what characters should be assigned to it, oneĬoming from personal computer keyboards and the other from terminal keyboards (see Z, much less assign characters to it when said key is present (in The standard does not define the presence of a key between LSHIFT and \| key, independently of whichever other national layouts might be additionally (“ANSI”) Enter key, and in row 3, with a size ofġ.0U, if the keyboard has a vertical (“ISO”) Enter key instead therefore,Ī keycap set that supports the English (USA) layout and contains both versions of theĮnter key, also needs to provide both versions of the To: in row 2, with a size of 1.5U, if the keyboard has a horizontal ( “backslash‑pipe”) key has two valid places to be assigned Nicknames, though, are serious misnomers) and due to this, they were both taken in consideration in it īecause of this, both are still valid, even if the horizontal Enter key is now Nowadays called “ANSI Enter”, and vertical, nowadays called “ISO Enter” - both Key were common in keyboards sold and used within the United States of America (horizontal, The standard for this layout was codified back when both main versions of the Enter In fact, the RALT key is simply the right-side Alt This is the only major layout that does not use the tertiary (AltGr) or quaternary (AltGr‑Shift) Official in the United States of America used in several other English-speaking countries with differingĭegrees of officiality (including, strangely, the Netherlands? See below.). Slovenian, Croatian and Serbian (Latin).Ĭonsidered the base layout for historical reasons. Central and Southeastern European layouts. Western and Central Mediterranean layouts. This document is comprised of the following sections: In each section, the base US English over ANSI layout and a different national layout are presented side by side, “alpha” block, ignoring the remaining parts of a keyboard (namely: This page compares the US English national layout with different national layouts used in other countries.Įach comparison focuses on the differing arrangements of the alphabetical, numerical and typographical symbols inĮach national layout due to this, all of them are presented within the same regular alphanumeric or A Visual Comparison of Different National Layouts on a Computer Keyboard.
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