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This is a problem with a KeyboardLayout that comes from being too closely associated with the QUERTY keyboard layout used in the United State of America and England. The ViFamily of TextEditor''''''s SEEMED to have this problem. For example, the way everybody learns to move around is: H J K L These correspond to the following actions: Left Down Up Right They happened to be on the HomeRow of the KeyboardLayout for a remarkable number of keyboards, including: QWERTY (US), AZERTY (FR), and QWERTZ (DE). Here's a list of all national keyboards: http://www.terena.nl/library/multiling/ml-mua/test/kbd-all.html You know, I started off trying to prove a point. But it seems that BillJoy fooled me again. H J K L seem to be common to every known keyboard! : ''So does the VI family of editors have this problem or not? This page starts off by saying there is a problem caused by American standards, but ends up saying that "H J K L seem to be common to every known keyboard", even internationally. Looks like the problem is resolved. -- EricPement'' : ''The problem does not exist in VI. -- Ron Perrella Now, WordStarFamily TextEditor''''''s DO have spacial requirements born from QwertyKeyboard. Page-Up is Control-R and Page-Down is Control-C. That's because 'R' is on the first row (implying top) and 'C' on the 3rd row (implying bottom). Also, on the Croatian keyboard, the Z is displaced (compared to the QWERTY keyboard). ---- Appendix QWERTY keyboard (United States): http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/topics/keyboards/images/fig1.gif AZERTY keyboard (France): http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/topics/keyboards/images/fig2.gif QWERTZ keyboard (Germany): http://www.terena.nl/library/multiling/ml-mua/test/img/kbd_german.gif ''every known keyboard'' ? I think not. Consider: Dvorak Simplified Keyboard (United States): http://www.klippert.com/tcc/blog/pics/Dvorak.jpg
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