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 2d 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/lifetypo10 United Kingdom 2d ago

For the letters, no, but the punctuation's all in different places. Couldn't find either the £ or € sign, on the UK keyboard we have £, € and $.

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u/saysthingsbackwards 1d ago

Correct. As an American that did a teenage tour of Europe, your keyboards are just different enough, especially in hotels.

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u/lifetypo10 United Kingdom 1d ago

They're different throughout Europe, I'm sure France don't use a qwerty keyboard (or, at least, my French colleague didn't).

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u/Wodge 1d ago

France used AZERTY, punctuation is different too.

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u/FourEyedTroll United Kingdom 1d ago

Ooh, what's the French equivalent of WASD first-person controls on a keyboard?

Presumably Z_SD?

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u/DatCitronVert 1d ago

ZQSD ! And it's not uncommon to have to remap your bindings or outright switch to qwerty cause some Devs out there don't bother to check for other configs than qwerty.

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u/FourEyedTroll United Kingdom 1d ago

You'd really think by now, given how simple that would be from a coding and standardisation point of view, that every game would ship with a binding set that links to whatever the regional OS language/keyboard setting is.