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patgundWell, the Pismo I was rebuilding for myself had a defective keyboard. Since I had an extra Japanese QWERTY keyboard for Pismo, I used that instead.
Booted it up and used the "International" pane in System Preferences, (OS X 10.3 beta) to enable multiple keyboard layouts. Found out that OS X even supports Hawaiian and Irish Gaelic keyboard layouts. End result is I have a laptop computer that should scare away the causal user when they look at the keyboard and go "what the heck??"
Which is not to say it doesn't have some....quirks. For example, it's not quite a typical QWERTY, (character sets aside). On a US layout, shift+2 brings up the @ character. Here, it brings up the " character. @ is now at the same place where [ would be, [ is moved over, and ] replaces ' (' is now shift+7) * is shift+:) Shift+6 is now &. while ^ has it's own key, (shift+^ brings up ~)
Caps Lock is now where the control key would be on a normal Macintosh keyboard, and control is where the Caps Lock. The space bar is half sized, with two character keys flanking it.
So, just familar enough to be usable, just unusual enough to throw me off. :-)
Booted it up and used the "International" pane in System Preferences, (OS X 10.3 beta) to enable multiple keyboard layouts. Found out that OS X even supports Hawaiian and Irish Gaelic keyboard layouts. End result is I have a laptop computer that should scare away the causal user when they look at the keyboard and go "what the heck??"
Which is not to say it doesn't have some....quirks. For example, it's not quite a typical QWERTY, (character sets aside). On a US layout, shift+2 brings up the @ character. Here, it brings up the " character. @ is now at the same place where [ would be, [ is moved over, and ] replaces ' (' is now shift+7) * is shift+:) Shift+6 is now &. while ^ has it's own key, (shift+^ brings up ~)
Caps Lock is now where the control key would be on a normal Macintosh keyboard, and control is where the Caps Lock. The space bar is half sized, with two character keys flanking it.
So, just familar enough to be usable, just unusual enough to throw me off. :-)
