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Keyboard layout

A keyboard layout is any specific physical, visual, or functional arrangement of key switches, legends, or key mapping (respectively) of a keyboard. Layouts are used on computer keyboards, for virtual keyboards (including mobile phones or other touchscreens), or other typographic input devices. Standard layouts vary depending on their intended writing…

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Conventional Latin-script

Other Latin-script

Non-Latin phonetic scripts

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Keyboard layout

Nodes329
Edges328
Triples220
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.006079
Components1

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Keyboard layout

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related to Physical layouts · 21
Keyboard layout → A-key, ANSI, ANSI-INCITS, Apple Inc, For, Historically, In, ISO, ISO/IEC, Japanese, JIS, Keyboard, May, Modern USB, OS, Physical, Technically, The, Today, United States
related to Mobile devices · 19
Keyboard layout → Apple, ASETNIOP, Buttons, English, For, GKOS, Google Android, IBM, Intel MeeGo/Harmattan, MessagEase, Metropolis Algorithm, MS Windows Phone, QWERTY, ShapeWriter's WritingPad, Some, Symbols, The, The ATOMIK, The FITALY
related to Turkish (F-keyboard) · 17
Keyboard layout → Despite, During, F-keyboard, For, In, Moreover, Q-keyboard, QWERTY, Sıtkı Yener, The Turkish, The Turkish F-keyboard, This, Turkey, Turkish, Turkish F-keyboard, Turkish Language Association, Turkish QWERTY
related to BÉPO · 13
Keyboard layout → AFNOR, AZERTY, BÉPO, Dvorak, Esperanto, European Union, French, Greek, In, It, Latin-based, The BÉPO, Typing
related to QWERTY (Vietnamese) · 13
Keyboard layout → ASCII-based, In, Latin QWERTY, Telex, The, The Vietnamese, Unicode/IME, US English, Vietnam, Vietnamese, Vietnamese Quoted-Readable, VIQR, VNI
related to QWERTZ · 13
Keyboard layout → Austria, AZERTY, Caps, Central Europe, Czechia, Germany, In Czechia, It, QWERTY, Slovakia, Switzerland, The, The QWERTZ
related to history · 12
Keyboard layout → Christopher Latham Sholes, Glidden, IBM PC, IBM Selectric, In, It, Keyboard, Model, Remington No, Sholes, The, The QWERTY
related to Neo · 12
Keyboard layout → African, English, German, International Phonetic Alphabet, It, LaTeX, Latin-based, Neo, Neo Users Group, The, The Neo, Vietnamese
related to Visual layouts · 11
Keyboard layout → Europe, Even, For, French, German, ISO, Some, The, This, UK, Visual
related to Conventional Latin-script · 9
Keyboard layout → Although, AZERTY, Latin-script, QWERTY, QWERTZ, QZERTY, These, They, While

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layout keyboard key keys keyboards layouts used qwerty letters shift also windows characters input language standard use latin character typing

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Keyboard layoutis aextended Latin QWERTY layout0.90text
Keyboard layoutis aalternative to QWERTY in ShapeWriter's WritingPad software0.90text
Keyboard layoutis apredominant layout used for typing Thai0.90text
the IBM Selectric were making their own changesinstance ofelectric typewriters0.80text
the A-key is depressed but rather the left-most main key of the home row is depressedinstance ofthe keyboard does not send a message0.80text
shortcutsinstance ofadding additional information0.80text
learning aidsinstance ofadding additional information0.80text
gaming controlsinstance ofadding additional information0.80text
or solely for decorative purposes.Functional layoutsThe functional layout of the keyboard refers to the mapping between a physical keyinstance ofadding additional information0.80text
or solely for decorative purposesinstance ofadding additional information0.80text
àinstance ofa modified QWERTY layout with stressed keys0.80text
èinstance ofa modified QWERTY layout with stressed keys0.80text

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