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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/fact-of-fiction-the-legend-of-the-qwerty-keyboard-49863249/

False precision?[edit]

The article's History section currently has this:

The modern layout is:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 - =
Q W E R T Y U I O P [ ] \
A S D F G H J K L ; '
Z X C V B N M , . /

I'm not sure it is wise to include all that punctuation there, because that's highly specific to the US-QWERTY layout and ANSI keyboard design, and the \ in particular is not found in that position e.g. on (UK and similar) ISO QWERTY keyboards. Perhaps that part of the article would be better served by a common denominator layout subset of all (globally) widely available QWERTY keyboards. —ReadOnlyAccount (talk) 21:34, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

this seems relevant

On the prehistory of QWERTY

50.245.17.105 (talk) 14:06, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That paper is already cited seven times in the article, as footnote [2]. But ReadOnlyAccount's question is about "the modern layout", which well outside its scope.

But the caption should have said which of the many modern layouts, so I have just now corrected it. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 15:30, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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