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Dan Strychalski <dski@cameonet.cameo.com.twx> wrote:

> Regarding keyboard layouts used for different languages, here are some:
> 
> Belgian and French           A Z E R T Y U I O P
>                               Q S D F G H J K L M
>                                W X C V B N
>  
> German and Swiss             Q W E R T Z U I O P
>                               A S D F G H J K L
>                                Y X C V B N M
>  
> Danish, Dutch, Italian,      Q W E R T Y U I O P
> Norwegian, Portuguese,        A S D F G H J K L
> Spanish, Swedish, UK, USA      Z X C V B N M

Anyone knows what's the story behind those three variations?

Here's the japanese kana keyboard. Nowadays, though, most people 
use the American QWERTY keyboard and type in romaji (e.g., "n" 
and then "u" to get the "nu" character).

nu fu a  u  e  o  ya yu yo wa ho he -
 ta te i  su ka n  na ni ra se " .
  ti to si ha ki ku ma no ri re ke mu
   tu sa so hi ko mi mo ne ru me ro

" is tenten, . is maru, - is katakana long vowel;
shifted a, i, u, e, o, ya, yu, yo, tu are small versions;
shifted wa is wo.

Paul Guertin
p...@sff.et