czy (QWERTY) Keyboard



Czech QWERTY 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 Czech typewriter except the transposition of Z and Y keys. Therefore, it has the QWERTY layout and one can take advantage of all Czech, Slovak, German, and Hungarian diacritics from the ISO 8859-2 codepage without any AltGr sequence assignment of the A through Z keys.

The US characters can be accessed via AltGr and AltGr-Shift at their US keyboard locations (AltGr-á generates *, e.g.). Characters that would otherwise be duplicated at a given key (',', e.g.) are the exeptions. In this case, another frequently used character has been assigned there (x, e.g.).

This keyboard layout is ideal for all people who need to write primarily in Czech with the possibility to generate all the other Slovak, German, Hungarian, and American characters without installing and switching the other layouts.

  • Keyboard Layout
  • Table of Generated Characters

    Back to Czech Keyboard Standards.


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    Last update: January 24, 1999. Copyright © 1998 Pavel Makovec