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From: wb@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de (Wilhelm B. Kloke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] German Keyboard
Date: 8 Dec 1993 08:15:41 +0100
Organization: Inst f Arbeitsphysiologie Dortmund
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Message-ID: <2e3uut$89r@mips.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de>
References: <2dvg6e$b1e@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> <CEB.93Dec6235403@netcom2.netcom.com>
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In article <CEB.93Dec6235403@netcom2.netcom.com>,
Ch. Buckley <ceb@netcom2.netcom.com> wrote:
>When I type to a shell, it's always linguistically non-interesting
>commands which are English-based anyway, so who needs Umlaeute?
I presume you never worked on a german keyboard. The keys z and y are
interchanged, and some of the syntactical marks are in different positions,
including :;"'@^ and more.
In Germany, they deliver the systems with german keyboards!
And worse. On Notebooks, some codes (@\|{}[]) are only reachable
using a special key (Alt Gr) or the Ctrl-Alt combination.
--
Dipl.-Math. Wilhelm Bernhard Kloke
Institut fuer Arbeitsphysiologie an der Universitaet Dortmund
Ardeystrasse 67, D-44139 Dortmund, Tel. 0231-1084-257