Keyboard Layout Survey

BruceMcF · Post by **BruceMcF** » Sun May 01, 2022 7:59 pm

I have only ever used English and French, and French only when I have inherited a laptop from my wife -- the layout of my office computer keyboard in Beijing was US layout.

English (US) 00000409, French 0000040C, Latin American Spanish 0000080A, and Brazilian Portuguese 00010416 seems like it would cover a good swath of North and South American and Africa. But of course I understand that Spain uses the original ES keyboard 0000040A, and Portugal the original Portuguese keyboard, 0000816.

I would add Swahili to that list as well, but as hard as it is to find information on Kiswahili layout keyboards, it seems likely many Swahili speakers muddle through with either English (US) or English (UK) layout keyboards.

It seems likely supporting the range of keyboards in use in Europe is going to press past 12, but it might be OK to stop at 12 in ROM and have the ability to load a keyboard definition from the SD card.

bisand · Post by **bisand** » Sun May 01, 2022 8:02 pm

00000414 Norwegian

MooingLemur · Post by **MooingLemur** » Sun May 01, 2022 8:13 pm

I use 00020409 United States-International but the variant that requires AltGr to activate dead keys. Without holding down AltGr/Right Alt, it behaves identically to a US keyboard. I don't see myself taking advantage of this too much given the limited tile set, but I thought it was interesting that the question was posed.

BruceMcF · Post by **BruceMcF** » Sun May 01, 2022 8:17 pm

On 5/1/2022 at 4:13 PM, MooingLemur said:

I use 00020409 United States-International but the variant that requires AltGr to activate dead keys. Without holding down AltGr/Right Alt, it behaves identically to a US keyboard. I don't see myself taking advantage of this too much given the limited tile set, but I thought it was interesting that the question was posed.

While the standard tiles may be a bit limited, that is not imposed by Vera's capabilities ... IIRC, Vera supports character modes with up to 1024 defined characters.

ppescher · Post by **ppescher** » Sun May 01, 2022 9:10 pm

00000410 Italian

Lain · Post by **Lain** » Sun May 01, 2022 9:35 pm

00010409 United States-Dvorak

Robinkle · Post by **Robinkle** » Sun May 01, 2022 9:52 pm

00000414 Norwegian

TomXP411 · Post by **TomXP411** » Mon May 02, 2022 12:30 am

I mostly use 00000409 US, but I have been known to use 00020409 United States-International from time to time when working on forms for non-English languages.

Sid_Som · Post by **Sid_Som** » Mon May 02, 2022 4:13 am

Mine more closely resembles this layout: 00000409 US

svenvandevelde · Post by **svenvandevelde** » Mon May 02, 2022 7:46 am

00000813 Belgian (Period) please or 0000080C Belgian French