One thing I find very useful is a mousemat with instructions for typing accented characters. I picked mine up around 5-10 years ago at Foyles bookshop in Charing Cross Road London. Here is a picture. Of course, it doesn’t cover everything, but it does show many characters needed for most western European languages. Painfully, I…… Continue reading Mousemat with accented characters
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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