International Keyboard Layouts

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Intro to International Keyboard Layouts

here's a introduction of keyboard layouts used around the world.

For latin-alphabet based languages, basically you have 3 major types:

Each of the above has minor variations, to allow you to input special characters such as รฉ

keyboard layouts map europe 2022-01-11
keyboard layouts map europe 2022-01-11

For non-latin alphabet languages, in general, the most popular input system or keyboard layout is one based on QWERTY with a input system on top. This is for for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian.

UK Dvorak

United Kingdom keyboard layout
United Kingdom layout

Norway Layout

Portuguese

Portuguese Brazil keyboard layout
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Dutch

Dutch keyboard layout
Dutch layout

Belgian

Belgian keyboard layout
Belgian layout

Czech

Czech layout
Czech layout

Danish

Danish kbd
Danish layout

Estonian

Estonian keyboard layout
Estonian layout

Iceland

Iceland layout
Iceland layout

Italian

Italian keyboard layout
Italian layout

Ireland

Ireland keyboard layout
Ireland layout

Multilingual Layouts

US-International

US-International kbd
US-International [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_US-International.svg ]

Finnish Multilingual

Finnish Multilingual layout VMft
Finnish Multilingual [image source 2022-01-06 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Finnish_Multilingual.svg]

Canadian Multilingual Layout

Mac Keyboard Viewer

Chinese Input System

Japanese Input System

International Layouts


Western Europe Layouts



Chinese and Japanese