A Dutch friend got a 2nd hand Lenovo with a keyboard layout I didn’t know: searching for the special keys did not return results
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/09
TL;DR: it was a Dutch keyboard, which almost nobody in The Netherlands uses (US or US-International are the most used physical keyboard layouts over there)
I tried searching for keyboard layouts using Google with these special keys that were present on the keyboard (listing all keys that either have special symbols on them, or use the Alg-Gr modifier):
Special keys Normal key Unicode / Wikipedia link Shift key Unicode / Wikipedia link Alt-Gr key Unicode / Wikipedia link @ – § U+00A7 : SECTION SIGN ¬ U+00AC : NOT SIGN
{angled dash (in typography)}1 – ! – ¹ U+00B9 : SUPERSCRIPT ONE 2 – “ – ² U+00B2 : SUPERSCRIPT TWO
{squared}3 – # – ³ U+00B3 : SUPERSCRIPT THREE
{cubed}4 – $ – ¼ U+00BC : VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER 5 – % – ½ U+00BD : VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF 6 – & – ¾ U+00BE : VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS 7 – _ – £ U+00A3 : POUND SIGN
{pound sterling, Irish punt, lira, etc.}8 – ( – { – 9 – ) – } – 0 – ‘ – / – ? – \ – ° U+00B0 : DEGREE SIGN ~ – ¸ U+00B8 : CEDILLA e – E – € U+20AC : EURO SIGN p – P – ¶ U+00B6 : PILCROW SIGN
{paragraph sign}s – S – ß U+00DF : LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S
{Eszett}+ – ± U+00B1 : PLUS-MINUS SIGN
{biquintile (astrological aspect: 144°)}` U+0060 : GRAVE ACCENT ´ U+00B4 : ACUTE ACCENT [ – ] – ¦ U+00A6 : BROKEN BAR
{parted rule (in typography)}z – Z – « U+00AB : LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
{left guillemet; chevrons (in typography)}x – X – » U+00BB : RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
{right guillemet}c – C – ¢ U+00A2 : CENT SIGN m – M – μ U+00B5 : MICRO SIGN . – ; – · U+00B7 : MIDDLE DOT
{midpoint (in typography); Georgian comma;
Greek middle dot (ano teleia)}
Wikipedia links:
- [Wayback/Archive] List of QWERTY keyboard language variants – Wikipedia
- [Wayback/Archive] List of QWERTY keyboard language variants: Dutch (Netherlands) – Wikipedia
Though it is seldom used (most Dutch keyboards use US International layout), the Dutch layout uses QWERTY but has additions for the € sign, the diaresis (¨), and the braces ({ }) as well as different locations for other symbols. An older version contained a single-stroke key for the Dutch character IJ/ij, which is usually typed by the combination of I and J. In the 1990s, there was a version with the now-obsolete florin sign (Dutch: guldenteken) for IBM PCs.
- [Wayback/Archive] File:Nederlandse toetsenbordindeling – tekst als paden.svg – Wikipedia
- [Wayback/Archive] upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Nederlandse_toetsenbordindeling_-_tekst_als_paden.svg
Photo of the keyboard:
[Wayback/Archive] AP1GczMzgQrbBxa9q_D8e9lFO8NQrpyQe5vTwHismH2WLtoucrAnV_LZjqZA1rO86ge0_YVRPJNThF02ABCHZt9xVtcrXu5nBdGvhNfp6Irm-CD2BlCOdy7934nW84z-c7ZoCTqV93BllkBNeswB2UC5XV6FIQ=w1381-h1036-s-no (1381×1036)
Relevant: [Wayback/Archive] internationalisation – Why Greek letter mu (μ) on European keyboards? – User Experience Stack Exchange
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