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I'd like too add some comments om Mark Horton proposal to a keyboard
standard.
Jim R Oldroyd points at an important point, the need for national
layout. MH has e.g "}" as shift "]". On my keyboard they are interchanged,
since "]" is a captial letter and "}" the small version of the same.
Of the same reason I don't have "@" on shift-2 but as shift-"`". The Swedish
standard also contains some ofter differences to the American, bur they are not
important here. (But I like it, and don't like using American keyboards.)

Another thing that anyone hasn't mentioned is the arrow keys. They usually
sit somewhere on separate keypad. Sometimes in row, somtimes in a square.
But how, differs from keyboard to keyboard. E.g. the keyboards I use
the most are those of Facit Twist and Tandberg TDV 2230. (The Facit is
a Swedish terminal, the Tandberg Norwegian. Both of them are very good.)
Let's how they have arranged the arrow keys:

       Facit                              Tandberg
       
    Backtab   Up    Tab             DEL      Up      CSI
    Left      Down  Right           Left     Home    Right  
                                    Backtab  Down    Tab

Notes:
1) Both keyboards have function keys above these. I never use these keys.
2) Both keyboards also have Tab in its normal place.
3) CSI on the Tandberg generates <ESC>-[

The most confusing is of course that Left/backtab and Right/Tab are inter-
changed between the two keyboards. The fact that Tandberg has an obsolete
"Home" between Up and Down doesn't trouble me that much.

I also like to add that I find this type of arrangement far more logical than
the VT100-like   
   Up Left Right  Down
(With excuses for the order).

Another annoying differnce between the keyboards are the arrangements of the
left shift key and "No scroll"
The Facit has (like VT100 I believe)

NoScroll   LeftShift  Z           with LeftShift 1.5 the size of a normal key.

The Tandberg has
LeftShift   </>    Z              </> means "<" unshifted and ">" shifted
The No-scroll key is placed at far the right , three rows over PF1.

Although the Facit places the shift better than Tandberg, according to Horton,
The placement of NoScroll is stupid.


More on the subject could be said, but I stop with this.

Erland Sommarskog
ENEA Data, Sweden