![]() Like many other non-American keyboards, German keyboards change the right Alt key into an Alt Gr key to access a third level of key assignments."Ctrl" is translated to its German equivalent "Strg", for Steuerung). Most of the other abbreviations are replaced by German abbreviations (thus e.g. ⇪ Caps Lock is an upward arrow, ← Backspace a leftward arrow). Some of special key inscriptions are changed to a graphical symbol (e.g.(Some newer types of German keyboards offer the fixed assignment Alt+ ++ H → ẞ for its capitalized version.) Part of the keyboard is adapted to include umlauted vowels ( ä, ö, ü) and the sharp s ( ß).The German layout places "z" in a position where it can be struck by the index finger, rather than by the weaker little finger. ![]() In English, the letter "y" is very common and the letter "z" is relatively rare, whereas in German the letter "z" is very common and the letter "y" is very uncommon. The positions of the "Z" and "Y" keys are switched.The German layout differs from the English (US and UK) layouts in four major ways: The current edition DIN 2137-1:2012-06 standardizes it as the first (basic) one of three layouts, calling it "T1" ( Tastaturbelegung 1, "keyboard layout 1"). It is based on one defined in a former edition (October 1988) of the German standard DIN 2137-2. The German keyboard layout is a QWERTZ keyboard layout commonly used in Austria and Germany. ![]()
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