I notice that the Dell website only offers their 3000 series Inspiron desktops with a QWERTZ keyboard (i.e. QWERTY costs extra !). On querying this, Dell tell me that (quote) "QWERTZ is the normal layout in UK. QWERTY is International". Wow ! Have I been living in a time warp ? Is QWERTY no longer the UK standard ?
2 Answers
What rubbish!
From WikiPedia:
The QWERTZ or QWERTZU keyboard is a widely used computer and typewriter keyboard layout that is mostly used in Central Europe. The name comes from the first six letters at the top left of the keyboard: Q, W, E, R, T, and Z.
UK Keyboards are QWERTY always. the only difference is where the £ and # keys are and maybe a € symbol and a couple of others. But the main keys are the same for UK and US layouts.
2This is not true. QWERTY is the International standard.
To Quote:
The QWERTZ layout is fairly widely used in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and much of Central Europe. The main difference between it and QWERTY is that Y and Z are swapped, and some special characters such as brackets are replaced by the diacritical characters Ä, Ö, Ü and ß.
