On 8/15/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/15/06, Andrew Dunbar hippytrail@gmail.com wrote:
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!
Weird. Normally a "US keyboard" the < is on top of the comma (shifted) and the > is on top of the dot. I understand that the combined <> key doesn't exist on the US keyboard. Apart from the Romanian keyboard I can't see any at keyboards at [[Keyboard layout]] with no < and > keys at all.
No you are confusing the physical keyboard (hardware) with the keyboard layout (software). Latin Americans must use a Spanish keyboard layout (keymap, probably other names) so they can access the extra characters. Many learn to live with some letters on the keycaps not matching the letters which appear on the screen but at least they are accessible, which is more than can be said for < and > .
Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)
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