[GTALUG] another bargain netbook
Lennart Sorensen
lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Wed Jan 9 12:03:47 EST 2019
On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 05:32:21PM -0500, James Knott via talk wrote:
> I have seen those Canadian multilingual keyboards and they are a deal
> killer for me. I will not buy one. A friend, who's German, wound up
> with one of those and hated it so much she took it back. Perhaps that
> sort of reaction is why you're not seeing them. One can only hope.
>
> Meanwhile, I'm sticking with the U.S. International layout. It would be
> nice if they made that standard for North America English, as it has
> several more characters available and it would be nice to see them on
> the key tops.
>
> BTW, my ThinkPad came with a "Windows" key. I was able to buy a "Tux"
> sticker that nicely fit into the depression in the middle of the key.
I certainly buy machines with US keyboard layout myself.
The US international looks very nice. I have never seen a keyboard
actually labeled for it, although I see you can buy stickers for it.
I hate having my left shift key shortened which the canadian multilingual
(and canadian french) does.
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Len Sorensen
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