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> I went crazy trying to find the square brackets. Apple's US keyboards have them in a good place: on dedicated keys to the right of the 'p' key. Scroll down
by robotresearcher 10y ago
> I went crazy trying to find the square brackets.
Apple's US keyboards have them in a good place: on dedicated keys to the right of the 'p' key.
Scroll down a bit here:
http://www.apple.com/magic-accessories/ http://www.apple.com/magic-accessories/
Like you, I am baffled as to why some of their BSD userland programs are so very out of date.
- jsheard 10y agoApples US keyboards are fine, the problem is their international keyboards are usually bizarre hybrids of the local layout and US layout. Standard UK layout: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_United_Kingdom.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_United_Kingdom.svg Apple "UK" layout: http://i.imgur.com/pIGiilv.jpg http://i.imgur.com/pIGiilv.jpg (@€#@|\`~ are all wrong)
- rleigh 10y agoThe worst part is not that they have a "unique" UK keyboard layout, but that they don't support the standard UK layout at all with the built-in keymaps, which is frankly incredible given that every single keyboard other than Apple ones uses it since it's a British Standard and that's what everyone uses and expects.
- kayoone 10y agoYup, after my first Macbook with a german layout in 2009 i only got them with US keyboards ever since.
- chrisseaton 10y agoHow are those UK keys 'wrong'? Do you just mean you'd chose to put them somewhere else if you were designing a keyboard?
- JdeBP 10y agoAs has already been said here, there are British Standards covering computer keyboard layouts. There are the several parts of BS ISO/IEC 9995 (parts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 11), there is BS 4822, and the BSI also publishes ISO/IEC 15412.
- chrisseaton 10y agoThose standards are just someone else's opinion though. As long as they don't claim to meet those standards then they aren't 'wrong', they just have a different opinion on what's best compared to the standard.