The QWERTY keyboard

The QWERTY keyboard
The layout of the digits and letters on a QWERTY keyboard is fixed ,
but non-alphanumeric keys vary between keyboards. For example, there is a difference between key assignments on British and American keyboards (in particular,
above the 3 on the UK keyboard is the pound sign £, whilst on the US keyboard
there is a dollar sign $). The standard layout is also subject to variation in the placement of brackets, backslashes and suchlike. In addition different national keyboards
include accented letters and the traditional French layout places the main letters in
different locations – the top line starts AZERTY.

QWERTY

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QWERTY is a keyboard layout for Latin script. The name comes from the order of the first six keys on the top left letter row of the keyboard (Q W E R T Y). The QWERTY design is based on a layout created for the Sholes and Glidden typewriter and sold to Remington in 1873. It became popular with the success of the Remington No. 2 of 1878, and remains in use on electronic keyboards due to inertia, the difficulty of learning a layout that differs from the currently entrenched standard, the network effect of a standard layout, and the claim by some that alternatives fail to provide very significant advantages.^[1]