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James Woodcock
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I struggle when I go to Hungary as they move a couple of letters - I think it's the Y and Z are moved.
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Philippe Negrin
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Here in France we have the famous AZERTY
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James Woodcock: I struggle when I go to Hungary as they move a couple of letters - I think it's the Y and Z are moved.

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Had the same when I went to Turkey last year - lower-case 'i' is a different key to upper-case (located where @ is on my UK keyboard*). Ended up throwing in the towel, and writing all my e-maIls with a bunch of capItal letters In them, because It was easIer than constantly havIng to compensate. Really, really jarring!

*...which I point out, because US keyboards are different, with @ and " being swapped over - I've been to a couple of places where @ is on the same key as 2, and it throws my touch-typing no end when it comes to quotations and e-mail addresses...



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…lower-case 'i' is a different key to upper-case …

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THAT is just crazy!!

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Jack Bohn
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I have a German typewriter in the basement, (I don't know how) it has the QWERTY layout with ü and ß keys to the right of the p and ä and ö right of the l.  It does raise the question of whether this layout is equally well-suited (or equally ill-suited) to other languages.  It also raises the thought of a Russian keyboard with QWERTY layout and Cyrillic keys surrounding it on all sides!
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I wasn't thinking far enough ahead mentioning voice recognition. Who knows how far we are from thought recognition?

Not as crazy as it first sounds, I'll bet.
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Brad Hague
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Thought recognition is going to cause all sorts of problems with search histories on the Internet! I know my mind can wander...
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"Had the same when I went to Turkey last year - lower-case
'i' is a different key to upper-case"

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That's because Turkish has two "I"s - one dotted, one not,
in both upper and lower case. The "i" is a long "e" sound,
where as the undotted "I" is more of an "uh" sound.
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