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[Raist]

Shift for numbers?

What in the what

A LOT of characters sharing the same key than numbers are used very frequently. There's no need to have a direct access to numbers on the top row since there's a numpad most of the time.

 

[ksan]

ÅÄÖÅÄÖÅÄÖÅÄÖÅÄÖ

It's worse for typing in English though. ' is not very well located. :/
Also @ and \ requires you to press "Alt Gr"

I do like my <>< key though :lol

 

[Raist]

ÅÄÖÅÄÖÅÄÖÅÄÖÅÄÖ

It's worse for typing in English though. ' is not very well located. :/
Also @ and \ requires you to press "Alt Gr"

I do like my <>< key though :lol

Looks like a weird mix of english and german keyboards
What is it? Swedish?

edit: it's in the url name heh.

 

[Stahsky]

A LOT of characters sharing the same key than numbers are used very frequently. There's no need to have a direct access to numbers on the top row since there's a numpad most of the time.

You some sort of crazy keyboard defensive unit?

 

[ksan]

Looks like a weird mix of english and german keyboards
What is it? Swedish?

edit: it's in the url name heh.

Oh, ye forgot to mention it, it is indeed Swedish.

 

[Erasus]

I have only used QWERTY. But I heard that it was designed to slow writers down for typing writers got jammed.

 

[Garcia]

I love my <> key as well.

\nn/- >_< -\nn/ !!!

 

[Hitokage]

OH MY GOD LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH HAVE ADDITIONAL KEYS THAT PEOPLE NEED TO USE MORE FREQUENTLY THAN NUMERALS

 

[Biff]

Ask Quick What
Zoe Stops Xrays

Does not compute.

 

[Raist]

You some sort of crazy keyboard defensive unit?

Of course. Proud member of the AZERTY defense force since 1984.

I'm quite surprised that many people don't even realise that a keyboard is basically adapted to one language or another. If people went through the trouble of changing a standard layout, there might be a good reason for that.
So the whole "OMG LOOK AT THIS MESS WTF IS THE POINT!1!! D:" is quite entertaining

 

[SuomiDude]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/KB_Sweden.svg/500px-KB_Sweden.svg.png
ÅÄÖÅÄÖÅÄÖÅÄÖÅÄÖ

It's worse for typing in English though. ' is not very well located. :/
Also @ and \ requires you to press "Alt Gr"

I do like my <>< key though :lol

Exactly the same as we use in Finland except we don't have the Alt Gr + 5 (at least every keyboard I have had).

 

[siddx]

Cant stand azerty, whenever I used my buddies laptop that had an azerty keyboard I wanted to crack his face open with it.

 

[GCX]

I've always used Scandinavian QWERTY.

aka this:

 

[Champomade]

AZERTY is so much better (for French of course). For English, I don't see anything on a QWERTY that I can't do on AZERTY

 

[Fularu]

My laptop has the AZERTY layout (french one), my desk computer and my computer at work both have a QWERTY keyboard. My computer at home the US one and my computer at work the french canadian one

Needless to say, when I want to type in french, the AZERTY one beats the living shit out of both QWERTY layouts.

When I want to type in english though, the QWERTY one is better.

/shrug

 

[Raist]

AZERTY is so much better (for French of course). For English, I don't see anything on a QWERTY that I can't do on AZERTY

I think that overall AZERTY is more polyvalent than QWERTY. It looks more complicated, of course, but at least you don't have to go through that ALT+XXX or ALT+key/SHIFT+ALT+key crap for accents and stuff.
Even for german or scandinavian languages, AZERTY is probably easier than QWERTY as there's a visible key for ¨.

 

[mavs]

First I heard of this... photo needed

EEEEEEEK... /, (, and @ are all Alt?

& é " ' ( ? That's amazing, I've got the same combination on my luggage!

 

[GCX]

Even for german or scandinavian languages, AZERTY is probably easier than QWERTY as there's a visible key for ¨.

Eh, in Finland for example you only need Ä and Ö special keys compared to normal QWERTY keyboard (Å doesn't have much use in Finnish but it's still there because of the Finnish Swedish community). There's not really any use for ¨.

 

[Vorador]

I once tried to use a laptop with an AZERTY keyboard.

Had to give up and plug a USB QWERTY keyboard. I was taking forever to type commands. QWERTY all the way.

 

[Blindfutur3]

DVORAK! Seems I'm the only one

 

[Boonoo]

Fun fact about QWERTY. It was initially QWE.TY, but they stuck the R in so you could write TYPEWRITER all on one row.

 

[AlternativeUlster]

I get pissed off whenever you are playing a game and then they have it in alphabetically order. QWERTY rules the school.

 

[Altazor]

Latin American QWERTY bitches!

ÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑ

 

[A Human Becoming]

Fun fact about QWERTY. It was initially QWE.TY, but they stuck the R in so you could write TYPEWRITER all on one row.

Mind blown.

 

[-viper-]

I've only ever used QWERTY. And it rules.

 

[Lion Heart]

Left hand typing ftw!