![]() Most don't even know there's an alternative. Poels got used to it and don't mind double-typing for Polish letters. The first comptuers were składaki, assembled by small fly-by-night firms from usually cheap Made in Asia parts catering to the huge US market where the US keyboard prevailed. As it was explaiend to me, it was not a matter of preference but availabiltiy. I too intially couldn't figure out why Poles would use the "cowboy" (US) keybaord rather than their own. All the Latin alphabet is available normally from the Polish keyboard layout. The exception is -, where you use Alt+X, as Alt+Z is for Ż. Then you have Polish letters under combinations with right Alt. If in your country you are using a standard US keyboard, just change the keboard layout into Polish (not Polish 214! - it's this typewriter's one in older Windows versions the proper one was called "programmer's"). I think it may be still used by people who've learnt touch typing on typewriter - but usually it's a reason of funny situations if someone switches the layout incidentally (Ctrl+Shift keyboard shortcut in Windows). Yet in Windows XP Polish-language edition this "typewriter" layout was installed by default apart from the standard one having Polish letters under key combinations with Alt (and if I remember well, in Windows 98 this QWERTZ layout was a default setting!). A different situation was in case of typewriters, where we used a layout based on the German one (QWERTZ). ![]() At least most of the ppl use that keybord.Īll Poland uses it.
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