people in other countries (other than USA)

[JB73]

i see in other lagnuages there are o's and stuff with the umluat or whatever it is called


a few questions, is that there on the keyboard (the special a's o's u's and stuff) by default or do you have to make some magical finger stretching command to put it there?

2nd: are your keyboards in "english" letters and the qwerty layout?

3rd: do you type in englis posting here, meaning can you read and writy in english? or do you ues some translation software?


just curious, because to get the odd charecters all i know is the "alt" keys like "alt 0162" = ¢


thanks

[Torque]

nice tatters...

[Pooh21]

my keyboards got ümlauts on the side next to p and l üöä

[JB73]

Originally posted by Pooh21
my keyboards got ümlauts on the side next to p and l üöä

ahh german... what about the special letter... man german was so long ago... i think it was called the ess-tet or something, looked like a B or something

[mosgood]

Sorry JB but that avatar is disturbing......

it looks like a 12 year old shaking those knockers.....  

[Replicant]

English keyboard uses QWERTY

German keyboard uses QWERTZ (Z and Y swapped round).  German keyboard includes ä (ae), ü (ue), ö (oe), ß (ss) etc.  (For instance, Suess can be written as Süß).  These are designated proper keys where the [ ] @ - keys are (I think!! I have UK laptop keyboard at home but at work I use a German keyboard!).  There are quite a few differences between the keyboards and also the Caps Lock acts like a shift on all numbers (e.g. 1 becomes !, 4 becomes $ etc.) which can be a pain.  You do get used to it very quickly though.

[Panzzer]

Yes, I've got some umlaut-characters in my keyboard (åäö), yes, my keyboard is qwerty, just a bit differently laid out (some of the signs come with alt-gr or shift and I've got the åäö-keys) and finally, yes, I do write in English (I'm not using translators).
edit: I've got caps lock functioning as caps lock and got the y and z where they belong...

[JB73]

thank you both.... was trying to figure out where the extra keys came from lol

[Staga]

Finnish/Swedish KB has Å right from the P-key and Ö and Ä keys in the right side of the L-key.
Ü, Ä, É and some others needs two keys but those aren't used in Scandinavian languages.

[Raider179]

If I remember right you can change any keyboard into a foriegn language one by something in windows. Been awhile though and you would have to memorize the different keys or do something about that.

[JB73]

yes raider, but without knowing where what key is you'd be typing blind lol

[Tumor]

Originally posted by mosgood
Sorry JB but that avatar is disturbing......

it looks like a 12 year old shaking those knockers.....  

OH!!  Stop dodging the issue and just admit it!  You liked the fatties better.

[Staga]

Scandinavian KB's have IIRC couple keys more than ordinary qwerty kb's have, 104vs 102 keys.

Wow look what I've found: http://www.answers.com/topic/keyboard-layout

[CyranoAH]

1. In the spanish qwerty keyboard, we have accents to the side of the p, plus the letter ñ (I doubt  you'll read that) which sounds close to the french "gn", as in "oignon".

2. Pretty similar, but there are some small changes... the ñ letter instead of the ; , and the umlauts.



3. I write "hitechesque" and then translate to english via skuzzylator plus.

Daniel

[Nilsen]

No need for finger gymnastics. We have extra keys with æ ø å

No translating software needed either... we learn other languages in school. We have to learn english and we must also choose either german or french.