QWERTZ facts for kids
The QWERTZ layout is fairly widely used in Germany and much of Central Europe. The main difference between it and QWERTY is that Y and Z are swapped, and most special characters such as brackets are replaced by German special characters.
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Germany and Austria (but not Switzerland)
Swiss German, Swiss French, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg
Luxembourg does not have a keyboard layout of its own. Public education uses the Swiss-French keyboard, where the banking sector prefers the Belgian layout. Other places use either, or the US layout.
Romanian in Romania and Moldova
The above layout is not widespread — the American QWERTY layout is the most common in these two countries.
Images for kids
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QWERTZ keyboard of old Swiss typewriter
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German keyboard layout “T2” according to DIN 2137:2012-06. The characters shown in black are present in the traditional “T1” layout also.
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Hungarian keyboard layout
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Alternative Hungarian keyboard layout
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Polish QWERTZ keyboard used on Macintosh.
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Layout PL-214 used in MS-DOS, Windows and Linux.
See also
In Spanish: Teclado QWERTZ para niños
