International Keyboard Layouts
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:
- QWERTY โ used in USA, Canada, UK, Northern Europe (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark)
- QWERTZ โ used in Germany, and some central and eastern euro countries.
- AZERTY โ used in France mostly.
Each of the above has minor variations, to allow you to input special characters such as รฉ
- Some countries have their own special layout that's not based on {QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY}, but these are not popular.
- There are also special ergo layouts, such as dvorak (for English), bepo (for French), neo (for German), and many others, usually mulitple for a specific language. These are not popular. Usually used less than 0.1% of people of that language.
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
Norway Layout
Portuguese
Dutch
Belgian
Czech
Danish
Estonian
Iceland
Italian
Ireland
Multilingual Layouts
US-International
Finnish Multilingual
Canadian Multilingual Layout
Mac Keyboard Viewer
Chinese Input System
Japanese Input System
International Layouts
Western Europe Layouts
- Idiocy of International Keyboard Layouts
- QWERTZ
- AZERTY
- German
- Canadian Multilingual Layout
- French
- Spanish Keyboard Layouts
- Portuguese Ergonomic