On 8/15/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/15/06, Andrew Dunbar hippytrail@gmail.com wrote:
In Latin America a similar problem occurs with < and >. While those keys are present on Spanish keyboards, a very large number of computers actually use American keyboards with fewer keys. And guess which keys are missing? Fortunately these are not required so frequently in wiki syntax.
Hang on, in Latin America, people often use American keyboards which for some reason are missing the < and > keys? That sounds weird - do you have any more info on them? I notice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout doesn't have any information on Spanish keyboards (or US keyboards in Latin America...)
I just got back 4 weeks ago from a 12-month trip from Mexico to Panama and back again. Being an Internet and wiki junky I used dozens of different internet cafes in this time. The Spanish keyboard has a smaller left shift key and a smaller enter key. There is an extra key between the left shift key and the z key which has < and > - one is accessed by holding the shift key. With a US keyboard this key is absent and neither character is possible. I even tried to add them to MediaWiki:Edittools but they produced < and > so I had to resort to cut and paste!
Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)
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