Europe may seem united by technology, but even keyboards reveal cultural differences.
While most countries use the familiar QWERTY layout, France and French speaking Belgium use AZERTY, and much of Central and Southeastern Europe relies on QWERTZ. Turkey even developed its own “F keyboard,” designed specifically for the Turkish language.
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Do the French and Italian Swiss use the German “qwertz”?
That’s why I use a Canadian keyboard when typing in French
I don’t know many Belgians who don’t use Azerty
I am Turkish and I have no idea what fgğiod is
Nobody in Turkey uses the F keyboard
Everyone in Belgium uses Azerty, I’m probably one of maybe a 100 people that use Qwerty by choice.
*for latin script
QWERTY in Italy is only for modern day computer keyboards. My very old typewriter has QZERTY on it, which was the standard, but forgotten, Italian layout.
I despise QWERTZ and the Czech keyboard layout in general with a passion.
Qwertz is the most German sounding thing ever. No wonder its popular there.
incorrect for belgium
Idk why you are copyrighting it, since you keep posting low quality and usually inaccurate maps.
German here. For programming, I partly switch to the qwerty layout (the British/International one, not the ‘murrican one). It is fun /s.
F keyboard for Turkey was just tried for some period and nobody using nowadays
What about Greece?
F-keyboard in Turkey is only used by the government. Everyone else uses Q.
Czechia and Slovakia both use QWERTY and QWERTZ(but mostly QWERTZ)
Whoa turkiye can you say that?
The spanish layout is QWERTY but it is not like the english one. It has “ñ”, “ç”, tildes… I guess many countries will have same variations
Dutch speaking belgium also use azerty
Cmon don’t be pussies and actually show Eastern Europe with our йцукен
Everyone in Albania is using qwerty. Qwertz was stuck from first gen pc thst we received from Germany
QWERTY in Bulgaria too
I seen the Nordics using a modified querty like as Romanian.
Lets talk about Polish QWERTY and Nordic QWERTY.
These are only Latin script keyboard layout for Serbia it’s *quertz/љњертз.*
Having to re-make all input controls on each video game that works in qwerty.. or pressing alt+shift
Who you calling a fggiod ?!