Keyboards

As the trip has progressed south and east, geographically, and deeper into the slavic, linguistically, the keyboards have grown increasingly mysterious. We began in Germany with ö and ß keys where the return bar should have been. In the Czech Republic we encountered the switching of the z and y keys - always tricky despite my hunting and pecking. But all of this was just a preview of the mahem that is an average computer in Hungary or Slovenia. Behold the additional letters: ł č ć ž š đ. And the new forms of punctuation: ¸ˇ^˘°˛`˙´€¤. Last but not least, the whole system of the Alt Gr key, which allows each key on the keyboard to hold three characters (the first the base key, the second the shift key + the base key, and the third the Alt Gr key + the base key). So an apostrophe is available via Alt Gr + 9, the @ via Alt Gr + v. Go figure.

xoxo Jessie