Hi all.

Saw this; with 'caps lock' and 'shift´ and 'backspace', and 'enter' and... is it a joke ? 😟

The AZERTY keyboard is real

“Like other European keyboard layouts, it is modelled on the English-language QWERTY layout. It is used in France and Belgium, though both countries have their own national variation on the layout.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZERTY

Thanks. Yes, is real; but what about those keys in english in the french keyboard in post #1 ? Your AZERTY link is different, in proper french.

54 minutes ago, Externet said:

Thanks. Yes, is real; but what about those keys in english in the french keyboard in post #1 ? Your AZERTY link is different, in proper french.

I think you should tell us where you got that image from.

1 hour ago, Externet said:

Thanks. Yes, is real; but what about those keys in english in the french keyboard in post #1 ? Your AZERTY link is different, in proper french.

Is it meant to be an actual keyboard (it’s not a photo), or a schematic of sorts, just showing the layout? If it’s displayed on the English version of wikipedia, it’s reasonable that it would use English labels.

1 hour ago, exchemist said:

I think you should tell us where you got that image from.

..the link is in the picture..

4 hours ago, Externet said:

Saw this; with 'caps lock' and 'shift´ and 'backspace', and 'enter' and... is it a joke ? 😟

This is a virtual keyboard.

The virtual keyboard can be whatever you want it to be. If you are a programmer, you can create your own..

The voice assistant is also a virtual keyboard. What you say into the microphone is converted into text, which is then entered letter by letter by this app in each text field.

Such an application is very sensitive from the point of view of computer security. If it was written by a hacker, it can intercept everything you have typed (logins and passwords) (keylogger), or it can also enter something that has been transmitted over the Internet super-fast without being noticed by a normal user (keystroke injections).

Virtual keyboard API for mobile/tablet apps on Android:

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/inputmethodservice/Keyboard

Virtual keyboard API for web browsers:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/VirtualKeyboard_API

a more modern version:

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/inputmethod/InputMethodManager

There is also hardware keystroke injections worth to notice (that's why to the pentagon etc. will not let you take your pendrive)..

Keyboards have a lot of keys. In order to optimize the number of keys on the screen (i.e. so that it can be displayed on phone screens that have small resolutions) different types of optimization of these keys are used.

For example, you have to press one button, it is active for a few seconds, and you have to quickly press some other button to make this “second option” activate (the one below the usual one).

One key has many hidden options.

5 hours ago, Externet said:

Saw this; with 'caps lock' and 'shift´ and 'backspace', and 'enter' and... is it a joke ? 😟

Do you mean that it says “enter” in English and not “entrer”?

"Caps Lock" in French will be "Verrouillage des majuscules".. ;)

a bit difficult to fit it on such a small rectangle..

Edited July 12Jul 12 by Sensei

20 hours ago, Externet said:

Saw this; with 'caps lock' and 'shift´ and 'backspace', and 'enter' and... is it a joke ?

No joke. I had to use sometimes. The point was this: I had software with which I could open a virtual desktop on another server, which was configured completely in French, including the keyboard. To type the correct characters I used such a 'key map'. E.g if I wanted to type a Q I had to use the A-key. So this is a 'correspondence' map, not what the real French keyboards look like. This is what the French look at:

Another mean thing: if you want to type a number, you must use the shift key. Exactly the opposite of any other national keyboard I know of.

The <alt gr> works like the shift keys, but are for the characters that are depicted down right at the number keys.

Edited July 13Jul 13 by Eise