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Re: Standardised Keyboards.

Posted By: codeman38, on host 209.172.229.10
Date: Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 09:37:58
In Reply To: Re: Standardised Keyboards. posted by codeman38 on Monday, April 8, 2002, at 13:38:10:

> For those who might need a visual aid, here's a picture of the French keyboard layout. (The red marks in the upper left are the corresponding keys on a standard British keyboard.)
>
> The verdict? French keyboards are weird.
>
> -- codeman"of course they are; they're French"38

Oh, I just noticed a mistake there: Shift-semicolon should be a period (a.k.a. full-stop) rather than an underline.

Apparently the keyboard was designed by C programmers or something. Who in their right mind would SHIFT such a crucial punctuation mark?

-- codeman"verdict: French keyboards are even weirder"38

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