On Qui, 29 Jul 2010, giovanni_re wrote:
I can't recall now the options for "select the kbd style", but one i
recall was like "US-Intl" (I don't recall if that was what i chose or
not). Maybe there was also a simple "US", but I don't think so.
US-Intl is a keyboard that has the standard US layout
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_United_States-NoAltGr.svg) but
some keys are changed to be able to type other characters. For
example, ' is a "dead key" used to type the acute accent: press ' and
then a and you get รก.
It's useful for people with a US keyboard that need to type other
languages, and they are (or at least were) popular in other countries:
until a few years ago, here in Brazil almost all keyboards had the US
layout, so the US-Intl map was used to be able to type the accented
characters.
If you have no need for accented and other special characters, just
select the standard US keyboard, not US-Intl.
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