51 Facts About Keyboard layout

Keyboard layout is any specific physical, visual or functional arrangement of the keys, legends, or key-meaning associations of a computer keyboard, mobile phone, or other computer-controlled typographic keyboard.

Visual Keyboard layout is the arrangement of the legends that appear on those keys.

Functional layout is the arrangement of the key-meaning association or keyboard mapping, determined in software, of all the keys of a keyboard: it is this that determines the actual response to a key press.

Sholes' layout was long thought to have been laid out in such a way that common two-letter combinations were placed on opposite sides of the keyboard so that his mechanical keyboard would not jam.

Visual Keyboard layout includes the symbols printed on the physical keycaps.

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The "ISO" keyboard layout is used throughout Europe, but typical French, German, and UK variants of physically identical keyboards appear different because they bear different legends on their keys.

Usually the functional layout is set to match the visual layout of the keyboard being used, so that pressing a key will produce the expected result, corresponding to the legends on the keyboard.

QWERTY Keyboard layout is, by far, the most widespread Keyboard layout in use, and the only one that is not confined to a particular geographical area.

Azeri keyboards use a layout known as QUERTY, where U appears in place of W above S, with W not being accessible at all.

Turkmen keyboards use a layout known as AWERTY, where A appears in place of Q above A, U appears in place of X below S, C appears in place of C, and Y appears in place of V, with C, Q, V, and X not being accessible at all.

QWERTZ layout is the normal keyboard layout in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

AZERTY Keyboard layout is used in France, Belgium, and some African countries.

QZERTY Keyboard layout was used mostly in Italy, where it was the traditional typewriter Keyboard layout.

In recent years a modified QWERTY Keyboard layout with stressed keys such as a, e, o, has gained widespread usage throughout Italy.

Sami keyboards use a layout known as the Sami Extended, where A appears in place of Q above A, S appears in place of W above S, C appears in place of X to the left of C, and T appears in place of Y to the right of T, with Q, W, X, and Y being available by use of the AltGr key.

Dvorak's original Keyboard layout had the numerals rearranged, but the present-day Keyboard layout has them in numerical order.

Dvorak Keyboard layout is available out-of-the-box on most operating systems, making switching through software very easy.

An additional defining feature of the Colemak layout is the lack of a caps lock key; an additional backspace key occupies the position typically occupied by Caps Lock on modern keyboards.

Workman Keyboard layout employs a hypothesis about the preferential movement of each finger rather than categorically considering the lowest letter row to be least accessible.

Workman Keyboard layout is found to achieve overall less travel distance of the fingers for the English language than even Colemak.

The Qwpr Keyboard layout is designed for programmers and multilingual users, as it uses Caps Lock as a "punctuation shift", offering quicker access to ASCII symbols and arrow keys, as well as to 15 dead keys for typing hundreds of different glyphs such as accented characters, mathematical symbols, or emoji.

Christopher Latham Sholes, inventor of the QWERTY Keyboard layout, created his own alternative, and patented it in 1896.

The Keyboard layout is right-hand biased with both the vowels and many of the most common consonants on the right side of the Keyboard layout.

JCUKEN Keyboard layout was used in the USSR for all computers except IBM-compatible ES PEVM due to its phonetic compatibility with Russian ?????? Keyboard layout .

Neo layout is an optimized German keyboard layout developed in 2004 by the Neo Users Group, supporting nearly all Latin-based alphabets, including the International Phonetic Alphabet, the Vietnamese language and some African languages.

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BEPO layout is an optimized French keyboard layout developed by the BEPO community, supporting all Latin-based alphabets of the European Union, Greek and Esperanto.

In 2019, a slightly modified version of the BEPO Keyboard layout is featured in a French standard developed by AFNOR, along with an improved version of the traditional AZERTY Keyboard layout.

Dvorak-fr Keyboard layout is a Dvorak like Keyboard layout specific to the French language, without concession to the use of programming languages, and published in 2002 by Francis Leboutte.

HCESAR Keyboard layout was a Keyboard layout created in 1937 for typewriters during Portugal's Estado Novo.

Keyboard drivers created by Nick Matavka for the modified Blickensderfer layout have several variations, including one that includes the option of switching between Blick and another keyboard layout and one that is internationalised, allowing the entry of diacritics.

Honeycomb Keyboard layout has hexagon keys and was invented by Typewise in cooperation with the ETH Zurich in 2015 for smartphones.

The FITALY Keyboard layout is optimised for use with a stylus by placing the most commonly used letters closest to the centre and thus minimising the distance travelled when entering words.

The ATOMIK Keyboard layout, designed for stylus use, was developed by IBM using the Metropolis Algorithm to mathematically minimize the movement necessary to spell words in English.

The ATOMIK keyboard layout is an alternative to QWERTY in ShapeWriter's WritingPad software.

The Philippines Unicode Keyboard Layout includes different sets of layout for different keyboard users: QWERTY, Capewell-Dvorak, Capewell-QWERF 2006, Colemak, and Dvorak, all of which work in both Microsoft Windows and Linux.

Khmer uses its own Keyboard layout designed to correspond, to the extent practicable, to its QWERTY counterpart, thus easing the learning curve in either direction.

Sinhala keyboard layout is based on the Wijesekara typewriter for Sinhala script.

The Dzongkha keyboard layout is very easy to learn as the key sequence essentially follows the order of letters in the Dzongkha and Tibetan alphabet.

Compatible, international version of this Keyboard layout, called "Tifinagh " exists for typing a wide range of Tamazight language variants, and includes support for Tuareg variants.

Urdu has a standardized Keyboard layout present, developed by the National Authority Language.

The illustrated keyboard layout can be enabled on Linux with: setxkbmap am -variant phonetic.

The Keyboard layout was designed to be compatible with the hardware standard in many other countries, but introduced compromises to accommodate the larger alphabet.

The Russian Typewriter layout can be found on many Russian typewriters produced before the 1990s, and it is the default Russian keyboard layout in the OpenSolaris operating system.

Russian phonetic keyboard layout is widely used outside Russia, where normally there are no Russian letters drawn on keyboard buttons.

Apart from a set of characters common to most Cyrillic alphabets, the Serbian Cyrillic Keyboard layout uses six additional special characters unique or nearly unique to the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet: ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, and ?.

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Ukrainian keyboards, based on a slight modification of Russian Standard Layout, often have the Russian Standard layout marked on them, making it easy to switch from one language to another.

Greek Polytonic Keyboard layout has various dead keys to input the accented letters.

In Japanese, the QWERTY-based JIS keyboard layout is used, and the pronunciation of each character is entered using various approximations to Hepburn romanization or Kunrei-shiki romanization.

JIS standard Keyboard layout includes Japanese kana in addition to a QWERTY style Keyboard layout.

Oyayubi Shifuto Keyboard layout is based on kana input, but uses two modifying keys replacing the space bar.

An existing keyboard layout can be edited, and a new layout can be created using this type of software.