Ionel Mugurel Ciobica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> So, my question is, why all the (western) european countries needs
> pc105?

I'm not sure how to answer that, but in case it helps, here is how a
British keyboard is labelled:


 �  !  "  �  $  %  ^  &  *  (  )  _  + 
 `| 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  0  -  =

                                {  }
  Q  W  E  R  T  Y  U  I  O  P  [  ]

                              :  @  ~
   A  S  D  F  G  H  J  K  L  ;  '  #

 �                       <  >  ?
 \  Z  X  C  V  B  N  M  ,  .  /


Every key is required for typing some ASCII character. All the
characters are ASCII apart from �, � and �. The latter two characters
are hardly used in practice, as far as I know (they are from EBCDIC).
With a normal Linux keymap the key labelled � produces | and is the
usual way of typing that ASCII character (rather than AltGr-`), so
there isn't any way of typing � (use printf "\xa6\0" | iconv -f ucs-2
instead).


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