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Keyboards), there are two main traditions about what characters should be assigned to it, oneĬoming from personal computer keyboards and the other from terminal keyboards (see Z, much less assign characters to it when said key is present (in The standard does not define the presence of a key between LSHIFT and \| key, independently of whichever other national layouts might be additionally (“ANSI”) Enter key, and in row 3, with a size ofġ.0U, if the keyboard has a vertical (“ISO”) Enter key instead therefore,Ī keycap set that supports the English (USA) layout and contains both versions of theĮnter key, also needs to provide both versions of the To: in row 2, with a size of 1.5U, if the keyboard has a horizontal ( “backslash‑pipe”) key has two valid places to be assigned Nicknames, though, are serious misnomers) and due to this, they were both taken in consideration in it īecause of this, both are still valid, even if the horizontal Enter key is now Nowadays called “ANSI Enter”, and vertical, nowadays called “ISO Enter” - both Key were common in keyboards sold and used within the United States of America (horizontal, The standard for this layout was codified back when both main versions of the Enter In fact, the RALT key is simply the right-side Alt This is the only major layout that does not use the tertiary (AltGr) or quaternary (AltGr‑Shift) Official in the United States of America used in several other English-speaking countries with differingĭegrees of officiality (including, strangely, the Netherlands? See below.). Slovenian, Croatian and Serbian (Latin).Ĭonsidered the base layout for historical reasons.Central and Southeastern European layouts.Western and Central Mediterranean layouts.This document is comprised of the following sections: In each section, the base US English over ANSI layout and a different national layout are presented side by side, “alpha” block, ignoring the remaining parts of a keyboard (namely: This page compares the US English national layout with different national layouts used in other countries.Įach comparison focuses on the differing arrangements of the alphabetical, numerical and typographical symbols inĮach national layout due to this, all of them are presented within the same regular alphanumeric or A Visual Comparison of Different National Layouts on a Computer Keyboard.