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A keyboard layout is any specific physical, visual, or functional arrangement of the keys, legends, or key-meaning associations (respectively) of a computer keyboard, mobile phone, or other computer-controlled typographic keyboard. Physical layout is the actual positioning of keys on a keyboard. Visual layout is the arrangement of the legends ...
QWERTY ( / ˈkwɜːrti / KWUR-tee) is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets. The name comes from the order of the first six keys on the top letter row of the keyboard: Q W E R T Y. The QWERTY design is based on a layout included in the Sholes and Glidden typewriter sold via E. Remington and Sons from 1874.
Both the Danish and Norwegian keyboards include dedicated keys for the letters Å /å, Æ /æ and Ø /ø, but the placement is a little different, as the Æ and Ø keys are swapped on the Norwegian layout. (The Finnish–Swedish keyboard is also largely similar to the Norwegian layout, but the Ø and Æ are replaced with Ö and Ä.
The UK keyboard has 1 more key than the U.S. keyboard (UK=62, US=61, on the typewriter keys, 102 v 101 including function and other keys, 105 vs 104 on models with Windows keys) The extra key is added next to the Enter key to accommodate # ( number sign) and ~ ( tilde) The Alt key to the right of the space bar is replaced by an AltGr key.
National layout (Turkey FGĞIOD, Latvia ŪGJRMV, Lithuania ĄŽERTY) Non-Latin alphabet. The QWERTZ ( / ˈkwɜːrts / KWURTS) or QWERTZU ( / ˈkwɜːrtsuː / KWURT-soo) keyboard is a typewriter and keyboard layout widely used in Central and Southeast Europe. The name comes from the first six letters at the top left of the keyboard: ( Q W E R T Z ).
AZERTY layout used on a keyboard. AZERTY (/ ə ˈ z ɜːr t i / ə-ZUR-tee) is a specific layout for the characters of the Latin alphabet on typewriter keys and computer keyboards.The layout takes its name from the first six letters to appear on the first row of alphabetical keys; that is, (A Z E R T Y).
The key with ∷ four dots is the margin release. [4] The arrow key under TAB is the ↣ Backspace key, [5] which is pointing in the direction the paper would move rather than the way a cursor would move (as on a modern computer keyboard). Detail of a keyboard of a German IBM Portable PC 5155, produced about 1984–85
Thus, e. g. the Yen symbol “¥” occupies the shifted position on the 6th letter key of the second row, whether this is the Y key on a QWERTY keyboard (like the US layout) or the Z key on a QWERTZ keyboard (like the German layout). ISO/IEC 9995-3:2010 applied to the US keyboard layout