Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Quoting Carlos Thompson <chlewey@...>:
>
> > Typewriters are a good example of this. A typewriter optimizes for
> > languages like French and Swedish might have a deaf key for acute accent
> > mark you can use over vowels (or any other letter), while they may lack
a
> > similar deaf key for the tilde accent mark, and they will surely lack a
key
> > for the <ñ>. So an n-acute becomes easier than an n-tilde.
>
> I can't off-hand think of any Swedish word with an acute accent over a
vowel
> which is not an "e". So the optimizer could probably save him/herself some
> trouble by simply making an "é" key.
Well, I have actualy had and used an IBM typewriter sold in Sweden (with ä,
ö and å) (ca. 1979), with a deaf key that acted as acute in the lowercase
and as grave in the uppercase. Why? don't ask me.
This is, IIRC, the distribution of the Swedish kayboard layout in current
computers (expanded to include more signs and to have separated <1> and
<l>).
-- Carlos Th