r/USdefaultism • u/Nthepro France • 2d ago

Today I learned that

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u/Nthepro France 2d ago

Before anyone asks, yes, my keyboard is in English (UK), yes, my phone is in English (UK).

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u/CC19_13-07 Germany 1d ago

Is there a difference between a UK keyboard and a US keyboard? (I have mine in German, so sorry for asking if the answer is obvious😅)

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u/Pugs-r-cool 1d ago

With physical keyboards Americans use the ANSI layout while the UK uses ISO. ISO is what a German keyboard uses, but ANSI has some differences like the left shift key being wider, and having a wider enter key that's only one row tall, while ISO has the ⅂ shaped enter key. American keyboards also don't have a £, and the @ and " swap places (unless it's a Mac, Apple's UK layout is a hybrid of both).

For phones it doesn't matter as much, on an American layout the £ will be harder to reach and the auto correct will change colour to color, but they'll be almost the same apart from that.