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The QWERTZ layout is the normal keyboard layout in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It is also fairly widely used in Czechia, Slovakia and other parts of Central Europe. The main difference between it and QWERTY is that Y and Z are swapped, and some special characters such as brackets are replaced by diacritical characters like Ä, Ö, Ü, ß ...
QWERTY, along with its direct derivatives such as QWERTZ and AZERTY, is the primary keyboard layout for the Latin alphabet. However, there are also keyboard layouts that do not resemble QWERTY very closely, if at all. Some of these are used for languages [which?] where QWERTY may be unsuitable.
The Czech QWERTY layout differs from QWERTZ in that the characters (e.g. @$& and others) missing from the Czech keyboard are accessible with AltGr on the same keys where they are located on an American keyboard. In Czech QWERTZ keyboards the positions of these characters accessed through AltGr differs.
The QWERTZ layout is widely used in German-speaking Europe as well as other Central European and Balkan countries that use the Latin script.While the core German-speaking countries use QWERTZ more or less exclusively, the situation among German-speakers in East Belgium, Luxembourg, and South Tyrol is more varied.
Apple supplies a British keyboard layout, which has some differences with the UK Windows layout: The " and @ keys are swapped. The € symbol is assigned to ⌥ Option+ @ 2, rather than ⌥ Option+ $ 4. The # symbol is assigned to ⌥ Option+ £ 3, rather than a dedicated key. The ¬ and ¦ dedicated key is absent. The ± and § dedicated key ...
QWERTY (/ ˈ k w ɜːr t i / KWUR-tee) is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets. The name comes from the order of the first six keys on the top letter row of the keyboard: QWERTY. The QWERTY design is based on a layout included in the Sholes and Glidden typewriter sold via E. Remington and Sons from 1874. QWERTY became popular with the ...
Thus, e. g. the Yen symbol “¥” occupies the shifted position on the 6th letter key of the second row, whether this is the Y key on a QWERTY keyboard (like the US layout) or the Z key on a QWERTZ keyboard (like the German layout). ISO/IEC 9995-3:2010 applied to the US keyboard layout
It is QWERTY-based and follows the ISO/IEC 9995 standard. Italian-speaking people in Switzerland on the contrary use the Swiss QWERTZ keyboard with Swiss Italian layout. The Italian keyboard layout on Microsoft Windows lacks the uppercase letters with accents that are used in Italian language: À, È, É, Ì, Ò, and Ù.