![]() There are a variety of layouts that, for the most part, follow the phonology of the letters on a Latin-character keyboard such as the QWERTY or AZERTY. Holding down a Shift key (or pressing Caps Lock) in Windows produces the uppercase Latin letter without the need to switch layouts. On computers running Windows, Alt-Shift switches between keyboard layouts. ![]() On some keyboards, the backslash key ( ) can be found to the left of the enter key, rather than on the top row to the left of the backspace key, where it resides normally. Keyboards with 102 keys are not sold as standard. This would be an additional backslash key ( ). In a 102-key layout of this form, there would be an additional key to the right of the left shift key. This results in "open"/"close" being consistent with right-to-left languages (Shift-9 always gives "close parenthesis" U+0029, which visually looks like "open parenthesis" in left-to-right languages). One noteworthy feature is that in the standard layout (but not all keyboards), paired delimiters – parentheses (), brackets, and braces, as well as less/greater than, – are in the opposite order from the standard in other left-to-right languages. Like the standard English keyboard layout, QWERTY, the Hebrew layout was derived from the order of letters on Hebrew typewriters. Standard Hebrew keyboards have a 101-key layout. A typewriter in the Hebrew layout, the Triumph Gabriele 25.
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