czu (Unicode) Keyboard
Czech Unicode Layout for the Text Console and X Window System
Copyright (c) 1998 Pavel Makovec (pavelm@debian.cz)
No one has implemented this keyboard for Linux yet.
This keyboard is based on the "classic" IBM/Microsoft standard. At the time,
both companies had simplified their task in creating the keyboard layouts
for European countries behind the Iron Curtain and, apart from the basic
typewriter letters of a given country, they left all the diacritics and
characters of the remaining countries on the keybord. The characters from
the American keyboard had been assigned to any unoccupied keys left.
For backward compatibility, the american characters are still at unusual
keys (backslash remains at AltGr-Q, e.g.). It's got the QWERTZ layout and
one can take advantage of all—originally non-functional—diacritics (but ~)
to compose characters from code pages other then the Central European ones.
That's the reason why this keyboard is a Unicode one and why a Unicode font
is needed for the correct display of all generated characters.
This keyboard layout is ideal for all people who need to write primarily
in Czech with the possibility to compose all the other Latin characters
without installing and switching many different layouts and fonts.
Keyboard Layout
Table of Generated Characters
Table of Composed Lowercase Characters
Table of Composed Uppercase Characters
Back to Czech Keyboard Standards.
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pavelm@debian.cz
Last Update: January 24, 1999. Copyright © 1998 Pavel Makovec