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For example, the dead key for the cedilla (which can apply to different letters, such as ț in Romanian) on the old Canadian French IBM ID-058 keyboards was replaced in the primary group with a key that directly types the c-cedilla Ç/ç , since it is the only letter in French with this diacritical mark. The cedilla key (dead letter) is still ...
The traditional Canadian French keyboard from IBM must use an ISO keyboard. The French guillemets located on the extra key are needed to type proper French, they are not optional. A dvorak version (traditional Canadian French layout) is also supported by Microsoft Windows. In this keyboard, the key names are translated to French:
In the X Window System (Linux, BSD, Unix), AltGr can often be used to produce additional characters with almost every key on the keyboard. Furthermore, with some keys, AltGr will produce a dead key; for example on a UK keyboard, semicolon can be used to add an acute accent to a base letter, and left square bracket can be used to add a trema:
Ç or ç (C-cedilla) is a Latin script letter used in the Albanian, Azerbaijani, Manx, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Kurdish, Kazakh, and Romance alphabets. Romance languages that use this letter include Catalan , French , Portuguese , and Occitan , as a variant of the letter C with a cedilla .
AZERTY layout used on a keyboard. AZERTY (/ ə ˈ z ɜːr t i / ə-ZUR-tee) is a specific layout for the characters of the Latin alphabet on typewriter keys and computer keyboards.The layout takes its name from the first six letters to appear on the first row of alphabetical keys; that is, (A Z E R T Y).
PC keyboards designed for non-English use included other methods of inserting these characters, such as national keyboard layouts, the AltGr key or dead keys, but the Alt key was the only method of inserting some characters, and the only method that was the same on all machines, so it remained very popular.
This page lists codes for keyboard characters, the computer code values for common characters, such as the Unicode or HTML entity codes (see below: Table of HTML values"). There are also key chord combinations, such as keying an en dash ('–') by holding ALT+0150 on the numeric keypad of MS Windows computers.
Romanian letters à and  on the keyboard of an Apple MacBook Pro Romanian SR 13392:2004 ("primary") keyboard layout The original MS Windows' Romanian keyboard. It actually had the cedilla characters and lacked the Euro sign, and in some versions, the dead keys were not implemented, as upon they were typed, they were actually simple diacritic characters.