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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/fact-of-fiction-the-legend-of-the-qwerty-keyboard-49863249/

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The source used as evidence of the claim that Sholes intended to slow operators down is an apocryphal story is a hastily slapped together term paper. Do we have something real? 2601:281:CB00:B610:4861:1825:F155:F08E (talk) 18:29, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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- Software keyboards on touchscreen devices usually make the Polish diacritics available as one of the alternatives which show up after long-pressing the corresponding Latin letter.^[1]^[2] However, modern predictive text and autocorrection algorithms largely mitigate the need to type them directly on such devices.

+ Software keyboards on touchscreen devices usually make the Polish diacritics available as one of the alternatives which show up after long-pressing the corresponding Latin letter.^[3]^[4] However, modern predictive text and autocorrection algorithms largely mitigate the need to type them directly on such devices^{[citation needed]}. 85.221.156.3 (talk) 23:56, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Philippine keyboard

In the Philippines, toward the end of the twentieth century around the early eighties, some typewriters had a key for the Spanish "ñ" and another one for the Philippine peso currency symbol. Presently, there are some web sites with the Baybayin alphabet. (www.lexilogos.com) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.203.133.201 (talk) 10:46, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

^ "Jak używać ekranu dotykowego". softonet.pl. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 2017-01-27.
^ "Test HTC One M9". gsmonline.pl. Archived from the original on 2 July 2018. Retrieved 2017-01-27.
^ "Jak używać ekranu dotykowego". softonet.pl. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 2017-01-27.
^ "Test HTC One M9". gsmonline.pl. Archived from the original on 2 July 2018. Retrieved 2017-01-27.

[1] "Jak używać ekranu dotykowego". softonet.pl. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 2017-01-27.

[2] "Test HTC One M9". gsmonline.pl. Archived from the original on 2 July 2018. Retrieved 2017-01-27.

[3] "Jak używać ekranu dotykowego". softonet.pl. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 2017-01-27.

[4] "Test HTC One M9". gsmonline.pl. Archived from the original on 2 July 2018. Retrieved 2017-01-27.

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