page_title: QWERTZ
section_title: Austria and Germany
hierarchical_section_title: QWERTZ / Variants / Austria and Germany
caption_attribution_description: English: German keyboard layout "T2" according to DIN 2137-1:2012-06
context_page_description: The QWERTZ or QWERTZU keyboard is a typewriter and keyboard layout widely used in Central Europe. The name comes from the first six letters at the top left of the keyboard.
context_section_description: The PC keyboard layout commonly used in Germany and Austria is based on one defined in a former edition (October 1988) of the German standard DIN 2137-2. The current edition DIN 2137:2012-06 standardizes it as the first (basic) one of three layouts, calling it “T1” (Tastaturbelegung 1, or “keyboard layout 1”).
  It employs dead keys to type accented characters like “é”, and the AltGr key to access characters in the third level (e.g. “[”, “]”, “@”, the euro sign “€”, or the micro- “µ”). The “T2” layout as specified in the 2012 edition of the German standard also uses the group selection to access special characters like the long s, or foreign characters like “Æ” or  “Ə”.
caption: German keyboard layout “T2” according to DIN 2137:2012-06.
  The characters shown in black are present in the traditional “T1” layout also.
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