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Re: URL characters
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Date: 
Thu, 2 Mar 2000 14:53:52 GMT
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Anders Isaksson wrote:


Sometimes I even think the French have done the right thing (for once) with
their keyboards:

They have the upper row (with numbers and special characters) turned upside
down, so you use Shift to get the digits, and all the special characters are
reached unshifted! The numerical keyboard is always normal, so you have both
digits and everything else without shifting (OTOH, they have swapped a few
letters, just to make sure they differ from everybody else :-)

If you want a really different experience, you should try a Russian keyboard,
with both Cyrillic characters, and our ones (but on completely different
locations!)


We have two different keyboard configurations here, "q" and "f". In the
first one, letters are all located as a "qwerty" layout with a few
additions like ç ö ü and some others that you can't see if I type, and
almost all the special characters are located differently, and the other
one is the true national keyboard layout and strictly preferred by
10-finger typers. Since I'm not a 10-finger typer and I started using
computers with standard US layout keyboards my personal choice is "q"
layout, and I feel myself completely dumb when I face with an "f" layout
keyboard..:-) It looks so stupid when you can't type anything right and
typing so slow if you are supposed to be servicing this computer..:-)

Selçuk


(Ah, the memories...)

--
Anders Isaksson, Sweden
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