On 16.12.14 9:21, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
Bonjour,
Le ~, 13 Dec 2016 17:46:11 +0000 Alexander Ross maillist_arm-netbook@aross.me a écrit:
heh im mostly sure luke had no desire for the keyboard to be modular, as keyboards where such a nightmere. the work for french keyboard firmware was for the same model but diff labels and key combos basicly. as i understand it.
could be wrong but i think this is the case.
Broadly right. ISTR some rare keys might exist in FR that don't in US (or the other way around), but essentially yes, FR vs US is a label and combination issue.
Maybe you are referring to something else or more-specific, but as far as I understand- Common international key-boards have 1 more key (105 if full-size) than common US-key-boards (104). (Other differences can be placement, currency-sign available, and other symbols or special letters.) The additional key can even be found on a lap-top which uses a condensed layout without separate number-pad (and with only one key for "Super"/"Meta"/"Win", grumble grumble), and is otherwise the US-lay-out. The additional key is normally just left of the bottom row of letters. Sample labels on it are double angle-quoters << >> or (as a second key with) | and \ It looks like lay-outs of US plus additional key, are used by the Romanian programmers' lay-out, and the Slovak QWERTY-lay-out (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY).
It is nice to have the additional key, for non-default key-bindings ("shortcuts", "hotkeys"), and for non-default lay-outs which are provided by "software".