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The accent keys ^, ´, ` are dead keys: press and release an accent key, then press a letter key to produce accented characters (ô, á, ù, etc. Alternatively Strg+ Alt and pressing the respective key also produce the alternative characters in many environments, in order to support keyboards that only have one left Alt key. The Alt key on the left will not access these additional characters. The characters ², ³,, \, |, µ, ~, and € are accessed by holding the AltGr key and tapping the other key. This is necessary because the umlauts and some other special characters leave no room to have all the special symbols of ASCII, needed by programmers among others, available on the first or second (shifted) levels without unduly increasing the size of the keyboard.Ĭlickable image: Click on any symbol to open the Wikipedia article on that symbol. 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. JSTOR ( September 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "German keyboard layout" – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. people are having this problem since the 90's and it shouldn't be too hard to implement and would please many customers.This article needs additional citations for verification. On a side note: Why the hell isn't MS just making a Setting to make IME fit with your HW Keyboard layout. Change the value of "Layout File" from "KBDJPN.DLL" to "KBDGR.DLL".HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layouts\00000411.I changed some settings, in the IME Settings - I tried to set up different keys and combinations to make that change.įor reference I'll add the steps for my registry change: It works, except that I can't change the Romaji / Kana Input Modes via Alt+ Caps Lock and need to left click the Taskbar icon (especially bothersome playing games - need to change to windowed mode, click the icon and revert to fullscreen mode) Then I found an AZERTY user who made a registry change (good god, if my keyboard were azerty, I'd have bought a second keyboard). I googled to make the occasional happening permanent. And of course, the only Layout options are (still) either us qwerty or jp qwerty. I couldn't find a pattern on when it happens, it just happens sometimes. Playing games in Japanese I noticed, that the MS IME for Japanese sometimes uses the QWERTZ Layout (I'm using a German Keyboard) instead of the QWERTY it usually is stuck to.