Talk:QWERTZ

message: QWERTZ means Quartz and that's a clock company.
:No ... in German, "Quarz" means quartz. The same word as in English, just without a "t". Qwertz does not mean anything, and it is an impossible word too, since in German, a Q is always followed by a u. --87.122.11.99 (talk) 14:48, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Qwertzuiop 2804:56C:A40C:1100:B4AC:3618:C469:12CE (talk) 20:24, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: Although the text is correctly stating in Germany "Ctrl" is replaced by "Strg" the picture is not and therefor wrong.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.246.222.102 (talk) 06:58, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture of Qwertz Germany/ Austria

message: Some special symbols also have a different place, and the Ctrl key is called Strg (for Steuerung, English "control", although it is sometimes misinterpreted as String).
... Only German QWERTZ keyboards have the Strg key, Swiss keyboards have the same key labeled ctrl.
Yet the picture of the German-Austrian keyboard has Ctrl, not Strg, keys.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/KB_Germany.svg/800px-KB_Germany.svg.png
64.85.240.2 (talk) 15:09, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: On all my (German) Macs, (of 2001, 2005 and 2009, respectively) the ctrl key is called "ctrl"... -- megA (talk) 17:04, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ctrl or Strg 

message: This article is strikingly lacking any description of the history of the QWERTZ layout. The equivalent article on QWERTY points out that the QWERTY layout originated in 1873. This QWERTZ article only mentions some standards from the late 20th century that seem to be mainly taking into account computer keyboards. Obviously, typewriters have been in use for decades before that in QWERTZ-using countries such as Germany - did they still use QWERTY back then? Otherwise, when was QWERTZ originally devised and introduced? 85.180.116.25 (talk) 22:32, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: What's with the reported position of the pipe characters? Where does this come from? Here's a Swiss-French keyboard http://i.imgur.com/TQrVbdr.jpg These characters are swapped in many online references but I don't know whether there are two variants or they just propagated from incorrect sources. In any case, all keyboards I've used have ¦ over the 1, | over the 7; not the other way around.
2A02:AA13:8105:2500:8990:5D99:5A44:9958 (talk) 07:28, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Swiss position of pipes |  ¦ 

message: Swiss Mac keyboard layout appears to differ from Swiss PC keyboard layout. The Macs put the @ symbol by the G, while Windows keyboard put it by the 2. The photo only shows a Windows Swiss keyboard layout. --Sam (talk) 18:55, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Swiss @ is different on Macs 

message: see subject 62.2.169.30 (talk) 23:17, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  switzerland is querty and not querz 

message: In the overview section, the 'three main reasons' are pretty much a verbatim translation of the corresponding German article here: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tastaturbelegung#Besonderheiten_der_QWERTZ-Variante
However, the German original states those points as consequences, while they are mentioned as reasons in this article. Maybe that should be changed... 37.76.6.68 (talk) 10:44, 5 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad translation