[ALUG] Idle question about keyboard bindings

[Adam Bower]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 01:23:36PM +0100, Ruth Bygrave wrote:

> Adrian and I both instantly thought this was to do with Apple having  
> such an identity as a Californian company it's too arrogant to get  
> its localisations right.

>From what i've read in the past this is /semi/-correct. When Apple first
sold machines for the uk they messed up the keyboard layout. They've let
it stick now for over 20 years because they didn't want to change it as
it'd be "confusing" for the die-hard users. I don't find it's /too/ much
of a problem as it's so close to the US layout, I can now switch between
British, American and Swedish layouts without /too/ much trouble (and I
am a touch typist) just if I get hit with an azerty layout then I'm
screwd.

Adam
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