Re: (CHAT/OT) Left-handed '6'

En réponse à Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>:

>
> Dvorak? Sounds like a composer to me :) I have incidentally worked with
> other
> keyboards (like the - to a Dutch person - rather irritating
> French/Belgian AZERTY-
> thing, the - again to a Dutch person - bad habit have "z" in place of
> "y" and vice
> versa, and the completely different Russian and Greek keyboards).
Well, in my French opinion, it's rather the QWERTY keyboard that places keys at
the "wrong" place :)) . But I've been going back and forth from AZERTY to
QWERTY in the last three years, so now I can switch between those two mappings
quite easily.

> But I have never heard of Dvorak. Sounds inconvenient, though ;)
>
Dvorak is another key-mapping (IIRC DVORAK is named after the first six letters
that appear in the first row, like QWERTY, and is meant IIRC to help touch-
typing to be faster). But like QWERTY it is based on the relative frequency of
letters in the English written language.

Funny enough, at home I have a Dutch keyboard. It's essentially a QWERTY
keyboard but with all the non-letter and non-number characters put at other
places (for instance, for me @ is accessible by pushing directly the key at the
left of 1, the one which has the backwards apostrophe on a normal QWERTY
keyboard. Also, the left SHIFT key is shorter, to allow place for a key more
which contains both brackets [], and the right ALT key is ALT-Graphic, like on
many non-American keyboards). Also, all characters that can be diacritics are
available as special keys (you have to press the key+another key to see the
whole character appear. And that's valid for the cedilla too!! - which is
available with ALT-Gr and the key just on the left of the Backspace key -).

Since at work I have a simple American keyboard, you see that I'm used every
day to change key-mapping :)) .

Christophe.

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