On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 17:40 +0100, Ruth Bygrave wrote:
Which is why I had this "Sodding Arrogant Californian Company Doesn't Bother To Get Its Localisations Right Even When It Has A Few Million Overseas Customers" reaction (which I was very frustrated about when I went to the Mac user groups because there were 0 users who hadn't grown up in the Mac ghetto or used a Mac as their first box).
For US vs British keyboard layouts I still don't understand why localisation was necessary in the first place.
The British layout can type the US currency symbol with ease and has the # which seems to be more frequently used in the States (and my Asterisk box still keeps referring to as "pound") in a convenient (perhaps all to convenient) position.
As to layouts of typewriters-
There is a circa 1914 Royal typewriter in my spare room that has the following layout for shifted symbols
2-" 3-/ 4-@ 5-£
Oh and backspace is where the 1 should be (there is no 1)