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Qwerty, Azerty, Qwertz

What is the title of this post? Is it a short story by Jose Luis Borges? Well, as you may have worked out, it’s about computer keyboards. qwerty is not a word but the first 6 characters on an English keyboard. Keyboards for different languages have a different set of 6 characters first. When I…… Continue reading Qwerty, Azerty, Qwertz

Published 11 March, 2022
Categorised as Uncategorized Tagged Alphabet, French, German, IT

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