Keyboards - Availability in Canada

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 01:25:27PM -0500, William Muriithi wrote:
> >
> > Based on what I have found, most people hate the french canadian layout
> > (which was supposedly designed by the IBM marketing department in Toronto
> > by attempting to make as few changes as possible to the US layout and
> > make it not look very french at all).  The canadian government does not
> > accept it for use.
> 
> Interesting. So if the Canadian government do not use them, who use
> them then? I assume the government would be the biggest consumer
> considering most of their employee are dual lingual (Official once I
> mean)
> 
> Would you happen to know what the government uses by the way? France keyboards?

Canadian Multilingual Standard (A CSA standard layout).

French Canadian is a PC only thing invented by IBM.  I don't think the
Macintosh ever used it, nor any other system type that I know of.

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Len Sorensen
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