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+ | The terms **ANSI** and **ISO** refer to the two main classes of [[physical_keyboard_layout|physical keyboard layouts]] western keyboard. The terms ANSI and ISO are abbreviations for **American National Standards Institute** and **International Organization for Standardization** respectively. ANSI and ISO are physical layouts; they describe the size and position of the keys regardless of the logical layout (US QWERTY, UK QWERTY, German QWERTZ, French AZERTY, Colemak, etc.). Japan has its own keyboard layout, [[ANSI_vs_JIS|JIS]], | ||
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+ | ==== ANSI ==== | ||
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+ | ANSI layout keyboards are mostly used in the United States and the Netherlands as well as by some programmers appreciating the better use of key space. PC keyboards using the ANSI layout as used by the [[IBM_Model_M|IBM Model M]] are typically referred to as **101-key** (pre-1995), **104-key** (with the special and context menu keys added), and **87-key** (standard TLK (tenkeyless) layout). The main cluster of keys is laid out thus: | ||
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+ | The blue and purple keys illustrate the keys that differ from ISO. | ||
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+ | ==== ISO ==== | ||
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+ | ISO keyboards are used by many European countries, and with one extra key compared to ANSI keyboards, are correspondingly referred to as **102-key**, | ||
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+ | The pink and purple keys illustrate the keys that differ from ANSI. In addition to having one extra key, the ISO layout has another fundamental property: the right [[Alt_key|Alt key]] is replaced with the [[Alt_Gr_key|Alt Gr key]], which is a typographic meta key that accesses the third symbol on a keyboard. The use of accents in European languages leads to the need to enter many more symbols than in the US, with keys having increased symbol overloading. For example, in the UK, the " |
ansi_vs_iso.txt · Last modified: 2023/04/16 11:56 by thum