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The German keyboard layout is family of QWERTZ keyboard layouts commonly used in Austria and Germany. It is based on one defined in a former edition (October 1988) of the German standard DIN 2137–2.
Although rarely used, a keyboard layout specifically designed for the Latvian language called ŪGJRMV exists. The Latvian QWERTY keyboard layout is most commonly used; its layout is the same as the United States one, but with a dead key, which allows entering special characters (āčēģīķļņōŗšūž).
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.
Neo keyboard, produced 2017. On the basis of the statistical distribution of letters of the German language and research on ergonomics, the Neo keyboard layout aims to shorten the finger movements during typing.The most common letters are therefore in the home row and in the positions of the fast index and middle fingers.
In 2017 a petition was started to promote EurKEY as a European standard. The main reasons given by the initiators are that national layouts hinders the free movement of goods (notebooks) within the European Union (1), the software is optimized for the US market and its main keyboard layout (2) and learning touch typing is made difficult by studying or working abroad (3).
On the Japanese keyboard layout, the kana constitutes the second group. The Canadian Québec layout (1992) and the German T2 layout (2012) allow the input of considerably more characters than their preceding editions, to overcome the historic limits of mechanical typewriters. The "Group selector" is defined in ISO/IEC 9995-2.
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Blickensderfer "scientific" keyboard. One unique feature of the Blickensderfer typewriter was the scientific or DHIATENSOR keyboard. The DHIATENSOR layout is shown below (with alphanumeric characters only): Blickensderfer analyzed the English language and proposed a unique and more efficient keyboard based on his research.