Ultimately, the keyboards are more similar than they are different, but it is those small changes that can make somewhat of a difference. To accommodate for these changes, two of the keys on the UK keyboard have slightly different shapes the left Shift key is narrower, while the Enter key takes on a sort of upside-down L shape to accommodate the changes in keys in that area.
The positions of some of the key symbols are moved, such as the movement of the hash key from the Shift-3 position on the US keyboard to a position directly beside the Enter key on a UK keyboard.
UK US KEYBOARD LAYOUT DIFFERENCE WINDOWS
The US layout, first demonstrated on the IBM Model M keyboard of 1984, has 101 keys, or on a keyboard with Windows and Menu keys, 104 keys in comparison to the 102 or 105 keys of the UK layout. In many of these fields, the differences between the UK’s keyboard layout and the United States keyboard have some significance.īefore I discuss why I think that the UK layout is superior, it may be illustrative to discuss the differences between the two keyboards briefly. The tasks I perform with the keyboard range from writing text, programming in a number of different languages, performing keyboard shortcuts and navigating through a Linux terminal. Clearly, then, I have the potential to be biased, although I’ll try to deal with this as objectively as possible. I have primarily used the keyboard layout for the United Kingdom, both on 102- and 105-key keyboards, although I have occasionally used or had to use the layout for the United States. Certainly, the two keyboard layouts are more similar to each other than they would be to the AZERTY layouts of France and Germany, for instance, let alone a Dvorak keyboard or a keyboard for the likes of Devanagari or Arabic. It’s a source of some questions to me why the United States and the United Kingdom have two separate keyboard layouts, given that both layouts are made for the English language and for similar operating systems and computer systems.
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