![]() This is necessary because the umlauts and some other special characters leave no room to have all the special symbols of ASCII, needed by programmers among others, available on the first or second (shifted) levels without unduly increasing the size of the keyboard. Like many other non-American keyboards, German keyboards change the right Alt key into an Alt Gr key to access a third level of key assignments."Ctrl" is translated to its German equivalent "Strg", for Steuerung). Most of the other abbreviations are replaced by German abbreviations (thus e.g. ⇪ Caps Lock is an upward arrow, ← Backspace a leftward arrow). Some of special key inscriptions are changed to a graphical symbol (e.g.Bharathi script keyboard layout without and with shift (4).jpg 737 × 543 70 KB. Bangla Phonetic Key mapping.svg 900 × 311 625 KB. Armenian typewriter keyboard layout.png 515 × 187 39 KB. Armenian keyboard win.png 644 × 218 27 KB. (Some newer types of German keyboards offer the fixed assignment Alt + + + H → ẞ for its capitalized version.) Armenian Library P1130664.JPG 4,000 × 3,000 4.52 MB. Part of the keyboard is adapted to include umlauted vowels ( ä, ö, ü) and the sharp s ( ß).The German layout places "z" in a position where it can be struck by the index finger, rather than by the weaker little finger. In English, the letter "y" is very common and the letter "z" is relatively rare, whereas in German the letter "z" is very common and the letter "y" is very uncommon. The positions of the "Z" and "Y" keys are switched.The German layout differs from the English (US and UK) layouts in four major ways:
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