Editing Keyboard layouts (section)

==QWERTY==
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The terms "QWERTY" and "QWERTY keyboard" that are used to describe a typewriter or computer keyboard or its layout refer to the arrangement of the letters on the keys. The QWERTY layout dates from 1874, created for the Sholes and Glidden Type-Writer from Remington. QWERTY was created at the same time that typewriters entered the mass-market in the 19th century. Prior to this, typewriter keyboards had been arranged alphabetically and in several competing non-alphabetic layouts.

The QWERTY layout is significant because, despite many changes to the layouts of keyboards in well over a hundred years, it has remained steadfastly unchanged on commercial keyboards. Not all keyboards are strictly QWERTY however. French keyboards are "AZERTY", with Q and A swapped and W and Z swapped. Likewise, German keyboards are "QWERTZ", with Y and Z swapped.

Incidentally, limitations of Sholes and Glidden's typewriter mechanism is the cause of rows being offset relative to one-another, known as [[staggering]].