Arcane Jill wrote:

> Now here's something weird. Just about every standard, fully-size,
> desktop, (British) QWERTY keyboard I have ever seen, has the legend
> for U+00A6 BROKEN BAR as the shifted symbol printed on the key to the
> immediate left of Z (with the unshifted symbol being backslash)...
>
> However, on every keyboard I have tried, these assignments are
> actually the other way round! (Anyone else from this part of the world
> care to confirm this? Or perhaps explain why?).

On U.S. keyboards, there is no letter key to the left of the Z.  (I've
looked for a keyboard with such a key, but to no avail.)  Both Shift
keys are the same size, about 2Â times as wide as a letter key.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California
 http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/



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