Hmmm... Now you said that, I realize that on my be_BE layout keyboard, ":" and "=" keys are adjacent and don't even need "shift" to be typed where as "<" and "-

Hmmm... Now you said that, I realize that on my be_BE layout keyboard, ":" and "=" keys are adjacent and don't even need "shift" to be typed where as "<" and "-" are on the extremes of the diagonal of the keyboard (no kidding!) :-)