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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@planete.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] azerty [french] keyboard support
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Date: Mon,  5 Feb 2001 14:15:39 +0100
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> Not really. You can use, for example, an spanish keyboard, which is qwerty,
> at least, and has all the latin-1 characters. You would have all the
> punctuation marks scrambled up, but the letters would be in place...

the question was whether you needed a french keyboard for
a french pc and the answer is:  no.

inputing of latin-1 had nothing to do with that discussion.

and no, it's not just a simple question of the letters.

eg:

   m and ; are swapped