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The modern Dvorak layout (U.S. layout) Dvorak / ˈ d v ɔːr æ k / ⓘ [1] is a keyboard layout for English patented in 1936 by August Dvorak and his brother-in-law, William Dealey, as a faster and more ergonomic alternative to the QWERTY layout (the de facto standard keyboard layout).
The Dvorak keyboard is designed so that the middle row of keys includes the most common letters, with the goal of allowing greater efficiency and comfort while typing. These keyboards usually contains letters, numbers, currency sign (s), punctuation, function and control keys, arrow keys, a keypad, and may include a wristpad.
Alternatively, the Compose key is mapped to the right alt or to one of the windows keys. In GNOME, there exists a separate keyboard layout for Esperanto, replacing unused characters in Esperanto with the non-ASCII characters. A separate keyboard layout for Esperanto is available in KDE, too.
Russian Windows keyboard layout. The most common keyboard layout in modern Russia is the so-called Windows layout, which is the default Russian layout used in the MS Windows operating system. This layout was designed to be compatible with the hardware standard in many other countries, but introduced compromises to accommodate the larger Russian ...
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:
The UK variant of the Enhanced keyboard commonly used with personal computers designed for Microsoft Windows differs from the US layout as follows: . The UK keyboard has 1 more key than the U.S. keyboard (UK=62, US=61, on the typewriter keys, 102 v 101 including function and other keys, 105 vs 104 on models with Windows keys)
Remapping the keyboard, such as from QWERTY to Dvorak and other alternative keyboard layouts; Using shortcuts to type frequently-used filenames and other phrases; Typing punctuation not available on the keyboard, such as curved quotes (“…”) Typing other non-keyboard characters, such as the sign × used for dimensional measurement (e.g. 10 ...
The BÉPO layout is an optimized French keyboard layout developed by the BÉPO community, [1] supporting all Latin-based alphabets of the European Union, Greek, and Esperanto. [2] It is also designed to ease programming. It is based on ideas from the Dvorak and other ergonomic layouts. Typing with it is usually easier due to the high frequency ...