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From: craig@dcl-cs.UUCP (Craig Wylie)
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Are different Keyboards in use ?
Message-ID: <987@dcl-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 09:13:52 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 12 09:13:52 1986
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Reply-To: craig@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Craig Wylie)
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University.
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>
>While we are on the topic of diacritics, I'd like to know what people in
>Europe do with electronic mail?  I usually leave out the accents when I send
>e-mail in French, since the cases where ambiguous meanings result are few
>and far between.  A native speaker usually has no problem with this.  Not
>that I have the choice of not omitting them, unfortunately.  Terminals with
>the capability to display French are not widespread, and even then they fail
>to agree on a common standard...
>
>The French researchers I've met seem at home on QWERTY keyboards, which leads
>me to believe that they don't use the AZERTY layout.  Is this true? Does word
>processing hardware use the AZERTY layout?
>
Certainly the IBM display writer uses the French layout in France
and French speaking Switzerland (if you want to see a country with
real language standardisation problems - 4 languages).


Craig.

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