Differences between the Belgian and French layouts of the AZERTY keyboard of AZERTY Top 6 Facts
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Facts : 1 Differences between the Belgian and French layouts of the AZERTY keyboard AZERTY layout used in Belgium Same Belgian keyboard under Linux (Ubuntu 9.10) The Belgian AZERTY keyboard allows for the placing of accents on vowels without recourse to encoding via the Alt key + code
Facts : 2 The description partially dead means that pressing the key in question sometimes generates the desired symbol directly, but that at least one of the symbols represented on the key will only appear after a second key has been pressed
Facts : 3 In order to obtain a symbol in isolation, the space bar must be pressed, otherwise a vowel should be pressed to generate the required accented form
Facts : 4 The other keys are identical, even though traditionally the names of special keys are printed on them in English
Facts : 5 This is because Belgium is predominantly bilingual (French-Dutch) and officially trilingual (a third language, German, is spoken in the East Cantons)
Facts : 6 It should be noted that the key to the right of 0 on the numeric keypad corresponds either to the full stop or to the comma (which is why there are two dinstinct keyboard drivers under Windows)
Facts : 2 The description partially dead means that pressing the key in question sometimes generates the desired symbol directly, but that at least one of the symbols represented on the key will only appear after a second key has been pressed
Facts : 3 In order to obtain a symbol in isolation, the space bar must be pressed, otherwise a vowel should be pressed to generate the required accented form
Facts : 4 The other keys are identical, even though traditionally the names of special keys are printed on them in English
Facts : 5 This is because Belgium is predominantly bilingual (French-Dutch) and officially trilingual (a third language, German, is spoken in the East Cantons)
Facts : 6 It should be noted that the key to the right of 0 on the numeric keypad corresponds either to the full stop or to the comma (which is why there are two dinstinct keyboard drivers under Windows)