FRENCH KEYBOARDS

[BMan1113VR]

something that i typed to my friends while in france. . . please exscuse the bad language. . .and i mean in no way to offend french people

(moderators feel free to move to the jokes forum if you see fit to do so)

THE LETTER
'french keyboars!?!'

i f###ing hate them

zhy?
why?*

many reasons

1. the w is where the Z is supose to be
2. the A is where the  q is supose to be
3; the M is on the ,iddle line
4. you have to hit Shift to type in numbers
(. you hqve to hit shift to type in q period or question mqrk; or A comma!
-6. qll the # and symbols qre f###ed up
7. you get synbols like: <>

[Fozzer]

Hi BMan... ;D..!
Interesting... ;)...!
Did you try...
Start > Settings > Keyboard >
..and change the language..?
(Or does a French keyboard have a completly different key layout to the English keyboard)...?
...sacre' bleu... ...!
LOL...!
Cheers mon ami... ..!
Paul.
(England)

P.S. just had a second thought... ...!
I wonder what a Japanese keyboard looks like, do they have Japanese characters...?
..and what about an Arabic keyboard, does it have Arabic characters on the keys...?
... ... ...!

[Whitey]

LOL...thank god I'm finished with French.

I belive the layout is different Fozzer...I think the American one is slightly differnet from ours too...just a couple of minor things, though.

[Ivan]

Hi BMan... ;D..!
Interesting... ;)...!
Did you try...
Start > Settings > Keyboard >
..and change the language..?
(Or does a French keyboard have a completly different key layout to the English keyboard)...?
...sacre' bleu... ...!
LOL...!
Cheers mon ami... ..!
Paul.
(England)

P.S. just had a second thought... ...!
I wonder what a Japanese keyboard looks like, do they have Japanese characters...?
..and what about an Arabic keyboard, does it have Arabic characters on the keys...?
... ... ...!

Japanese keyboards have japanese characters... PC99 standard for the modern ones, but there are about 5 different layouts for older types of machines

Arabic keyboards have the single arabic characters on the keys, the character linking is handled by the software

Example from the MS site

How it handles capital characters, i don't know...
my girlfriend either forgets them when typing or they are handled by software

[Fozzer]

Hi Whitey... ...!
Thanks for the reply... ...!

Hi Ivan... ...!
Fantastic bit of info...amazing... ...!
What is the link to that particular Microsoft "keyboard layout" site...?

We, (I), tend to think that all keyboards have "English" key layouts, it's obviously not the case.... ...!

Cheers all... ...!
Paul.
(England).

[Ivan]

Link to the middle-east Win 95 support page.

And not even all english-language keyboards are the same:
You have UK and US Layouts, the UK one has the pound sign instead of the dollar sign.

For the US 101/102 one, you have at least 3 layouts (i've seen 3)

• Large Enter button, pipe symbol/backslash on the right of the plus/equals and small backspace
• Large Enter button, pipe symbol/backslash on the far right of the text part on the right of the shortened right shift button
• Large backspace key, small enter button, pipe/backslash under backspace and above enter.

Small enter means it has a vertical span of 1 row instead of the 2 rows the large ones use

I have 1 of the first and 2 of the third version at home, and have sometimes used the second version, but these are quite rare.

Most of the recent keyboards in holland are of the third type, but don't have the special 'dutch' character layout... so we tend to use the normal US 101/102 setting

[Fozzer]

Link to the middle-east Win 95 support page.

And not even all english-language keyboards are the same:
You have UK and US Layouts, the UK one has the pound sign instead of the dollar sign.

For the US 101/102 one, you have at least 3 layouts (i've seen 3)

• Large Enter button, pipe symbol/backslash on the right of the plus/equals and small backspace
• Large Enter button, pipe symbol/backslash on the far right of the text part on the right of the shortened right shift button
• Large backspace key, small enter button, pipe/backslash under backspace and above enter.

Small enter means it has a vertical span of 1 row instead of the 2 rows the large ones use

I have 1 of the first and 2 of the third version at home, and have sometimes used the second version, but these are quite rare.

Most of the recent keyboards in holland are of the third type, but don't have the special 'dutch' character layout... so we tend to use the normal US 101/102 setting

Hi Ivan..!
..very interesting... ..!
(Just peeked at your Profile to see your particular country...for your keyboard type...nuffin'...)...LOL...!
LOL...!

Cheers... ...!
Paul.
(England)....English keyboard type... ...!

[Craig.]

our new family computer has an american keyboard, i wasnt happy about that at first but now i am used to it.
those other keyboards look cool

[ozzy72]

I've got a Hungarian one, it took me ages to get used to it having been raised on the English/American model!

[Scorpiоn]

Arabic AT
Arabic Enhanced PC (101 keys)
Arabic Enhanced PC (102 keys)

Ooh... Enhanced!

[Ivan]

japanese keyboards use a limited 'kenji' set, usually have a normal US layout, with ALT to change to the japanese set, and extra keys enabling some more characters, but that differs because of the different types...

[BMan1113VR]

Hi BMan... ;D..!
Interesting... ;)...!
Did you try...
Start > Settings > Keyboard >
..and change the language..?
(Or does a French keyboard have a completly different key layout to the English keyboard)...?
...sacre' bleu... ...!
LOL...!
Cheers mon ami... ..!
Paul.
(England)

P.S. just had a second thought... ...!
I wonder what a Japanese keyboard looks like, do they have Japanese characters...?
..and what about an Arabic keyboard, does it have Arabic characters on the keys...?
... ... ...!

yes COMPLETLY (well almost completly) different layout. . .was really annoying

[BMan1113VR]

LOL...thank god I'm finished with French.

I belive the layout is different Fozzer...I think the American one is slightly differnet from ours too...just a couple of minor things, though.

american's are not much different. . .
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