Salvar Fawkes ([info]salvar) wrote,
@ 2008-03-28 10:47:00
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Computer Lab
These foreign kezboards are something else. First of all, the z and the y are switched. @ is under the Q, and zou get at it bz a secondarz "alt" kez, on the right side. Almost all of the non-alphanumeric characters are in a different place, to make room for the ä, ö, and ü kezs. "Ctrl" is "Strg", ' and " are on opposite sides of the kezboard, and I don't know what the hell § is. On the plus side, now I can tzpe ß, €, and °.
No, I haven't been drinking again. Thez reallz have different kezboards!


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[info]toumal
2008-03-28 05:38 pm UTC (link)
No. YOU have different keyboards :P

That strange sign you don't know what the hell it is, it's called the "paragraph" and is used mostly for designating laws here...

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And Aries said...:
(Anonymous)
2008-03-28 11:37 pm UTC (link)
*Laughing* Well, point of view here. When I get my hands on some US Keyboard it's the Z and Y being swapped, no lovely funky Umlauts and no § to write a hefty german paragraph-ridden piece of law-stuff.

By the way, with the "ALT GR" key you will also find the € at e, Ł at L and ł at l, the Danish umlauts æ and Æ at a / A, ø and Ø at o/O, an ß at s, ð at d. Numbers are funny, too:
¹²³ are made from ALT GR and 1,2 and 3. 4 = ¼, 5 = ½. µ is at m, º at M. ¢ at c, and © at C.The media-industry must love these keyboards we have, although, since introduction of the Euro, the (tm) symbol and the (R)-Symbol ( Rechtlich geschützt, similar, but not equal to ©'s Copyright-Note ) are lost, same as I can't fint the Yen and the British Pound monetary symbol. Maybe Lifejournals webeditor is unable to reproduce these signs. I don't know.
Anyway, you may try to look for SUN-Workstations. At least in the Universität ( not the Hochschule ) we had a bunch of Sun SPARC based workstations, and those had US-Keyboards.
When it helps you: you can replace the Y and Z on a keyboard, it's not as hard. And then use the english keyboard layout... But remember to but them back after work ;)

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