German keyboard layout

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The German keyboard layout is used in Austria and Germany for the German language, and is the most common of the QWERTZ layouts widely used in Central and Southeast Europe. The keyboard layout is based on one defined in a former edition (October 1988) of the German standard DIN 2137‑2. The current edition, DIN 2137-1:2012-06, standardizes it as the first (basic) of three layouts, calling it "T1" (Tastaturbelegung 1, "keyboard layout 1"). The German layout differs from the English (US and UK) layouts in four major ways: The positions of the Z and Y keys are switched. Part of the keyboard is adapted to include umlauted vowels ⟨ä, ö, ü⟩ and sharp s ⟨ß⟩. (Some newer implementations of the layout offer the assignment AltGr+H → ẞ for its capital version.) Some of special key inscriptions are changed to a graphical symbol (e.g. ⇪ Caps Lock is an upward arrow, ← Backspace a leftward arrow). Most of the other abbreviations are replaced by German abbreviations (thus e.g. ⌃ Ctrl is translated to...

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