Re: [OT] Keyboards (was: American English translation of character names)

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Thu Dec 18 2003 - 11:27:57 EST

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    Arcane Jill wrote:

    > Now here's something weird. Just about every standard, fully-size,
    > desktop, (British) QWERTY keyboard I have ever seen, has the legend
    > for U+00A6 BROKEN BAR as the shifted symbol printed on the key to the
    > immediate left of Z (with the unshifted symbol being backslash)...
    >
    > However, on every keyboard I have tried, these assignments are
    > actually the other way round! (Anyone else from this part of the world
    > care to confirm this? Or perhaps explain why?).

    On U.S. keyboards, there is no letter key to the left of the Z. (I've
    looked for a keyboard with such a key, but to no avail.) Both Shift
    keys are the same size, about 2½ times as wide as a letter key.

    -Doug Ewell
     Fullerton, California
     http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/

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