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Article #222Re: Are different Keyboards in use ?
From: Keld J|rn Simonsen
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1986 16:10
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1986 16:10
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In Denmark we use keyboards with the national chars {|}, and almost
anybody I know uses such a keyboard. I know some very engineer
oriented places where they use ASCII.
Mail are done with these national chars, and when I communicate with
other Scandinavian people (in my language, they answer in theirs)
I also use the Danish Standard ISO 646 char set. And they use their
national version of ISO 646, that is I have never got an e-mail
from another Scandinavian country, where they did not use {|}.
So I recon national keybords are commonplace there too.
I know that this also counts for the commercial world, IBM sells
almost exclusively Danish keyboards here.
The situation may be different in other countries, eg. Germany.
In the Scandinavian countries {|} are considered genuine lettes,
where they in Germany just are umlauts.
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