Different Keyboards on different countries

[The Monkey]

When I was in England some weeks ago, i notices something, your keyboards his not at all like ours, for exaple, ? has changed place with -. Why do that is?

British(American?): http://www.fujitsu-siemens.co.uk/rl/servicesupport/techsupport/consumer/MULTI/keyboard.png

German: http://www.remote.org/jochen/projects/jvc/keyboard.png

 

[KagePrototype]

Yup, it's true. The US standard for keyboard layouts is slightly different to those in the UK. It's only just a couple of symbols anyway, so it's nothing major.

 

[The Mullinator]

I went to France last summer and had a really tough time trying to use the computers there because alot of the regular letters were also switched around.

If you didn't carefully watch what you typed you would end up sounding like some AOL kiddy with vowels and consonants in the wrong places.