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KEYBOARD STRUCTURE The keys labelled only with a Capital letter can type both small and capital letters. To type the symbol at the top left of a key, the Shift Key , often labelled "↑", is used. To type the symbol at the bottom right of a key, the AltGr Key is used. (Further symbols are available on the keyboards of Laptop computers, which require further keystroke combinations.) The standard keyboard structure also includes the Control , Alternative , and Function Key s. Together, these keys are commonly known as Modifier Key s. Dead key A dead key is a key on a typewriter or a computer keyboard that produces no output when it is pressed, but modifies the output of the next key pressed after it. Many languages include additional characters, such as accented characters, that do not easily fit onto a standard keyboard. Typing the accented characters is made easier by using a Dead Key feature. When you use the dead key, nothing will happen on the screen when you press the designated key for the accent that you want. Next, you type the character that you wish to have accented. If you type the correct accent and character, the desired accented character appears on the screen. This key combination requires that you type an acceptable sequence. For example, if you type the acute accent dead key followed by the letter "a", you will get the accented "a": "á". If you type the accented dead key followed by the "t" key, you will not get anything on the screen unless that particular font includes an accented "t" character. Alternatively, you get an accent as a separate character, followed by the other character. To type a Diacritic al mark on its own, it should be followed by a space. In the Mac OS , dead keys are accessed with the option (alt) key as follows: which is then followed by the letter the accent is intended for. For example, the keypresses ''option-e e'' results in the é character. NOTE ON KEYBOARD LAYOUTS The following layouts assume that the physical location of all keys are the same as on a US 102-key PC/AT keyboard. In practice, keyboards from other countries may have keys in slightly different locations. However, if you have a US 102-key PC/AT keyboard and you configure your Operating System to use a non-English language on it, the keys will be placed as follows. "Dead keys" ( See Above ) appear as characters in red. Characters accessed using the AltGr key appear on the bottom right of the corresponding key, or in some images as characters in blue. INSTALLATION In Windows, put the keyboard layout file in the System Suitcase in the System Folder . KEYBOARD LAYOUTS FOR ROMAN SCRIPT Although there are a large number of different keyboard layouts used with different languages written in Roman script, most of these layouts are quite similar. According to where the keys for Q, A, Z, M, and Y are placed on the keyboard, they can be divided into three main families. These are usually named according to the first six letters. Note that while the core of the keyboard, the alphabetic section, remains fairly constant, and the numbers from 1-9 are almost invariably on the top row, keyboards differ vastly in:
QWERTY See Also: QWERTY Is by far the most widespread of these, the only one not confined to a particular geographical area. Note that keys like "enter" and "caps lock" have not been translated from the language of the keyboard in question. Canadian French :: linux configuration code: ca_enhanced Canadian Multilingual Standard :: But note that United States keyboards are also used in Canada. Portuguese ( Portugal ) :: Portuguese ( Brazil ) :: Norwegian :: Danish :: Swedish / Finnish :: Estonian :: UK :: The United Kingdom layout is similar to the United States layout. In Hong Kong , UK Keyboards are not used. US and Chinese (Traditional) keyboards are used instead. Though such Hong Kong users can add "English (United Kingdom)" as the keyboard input language in the Operating System , they need to change the corresponding keyboard layout to "US", not "English (United Kingdom)". See the article British And American Keyboards for details. See also Technical Standards In Colonial Hong Kong . Note:
Five linebreaks were removed from the text before testing. It should also be noted that the Plum Keyboard seems to have a tendency to have the most keys on the home row, although ASSET had the most in this test. SEE ALSO
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