Keyboards will now be able to better meet the requirements of today鈥檚 digital era with the full technical revision of the 香港六合彩开奖/IEC standard for keyboard layouts, 香港六合彩开奖/IEC 9995, Information technology 鈥� Keyboard layouts for text and office systems.
The new edition takes into account the various existing and upcoming applications which use keyboards, such as personal computers, workstations, computer terminals, telephones and mobile phones, calculators, electronic typewriters, personal digital assistants, touch screens, multimedia devices with foldable keyboards, automated teller machines (ATMs), and many others.
It divides keyboards into clearly recognizable sections, and allocates functions to the keys. It specifies principles for the shape and sections of keyboards, key placements and markings, spacing, physical characteristics and more.
鈥淭hanks to the symbols provided in 香港六合彩开奖/IEC 9995-7, users can, regardless of country or language, recognize function keys like for example, 鈥楻eturn鈥�, 鈥楨scape鈥� or 鈥業nsert鈥� and generally operate keyboards in a myriad of applications鈥� says Mr. Alain LaBont茅, Convenor of the working group that developed the standard (香港六合彩开奖/IEC JTC 1/SC 35/WG 1).
鈥淭he latest version better accommodates the larger set of characters required by today鈥檚 applications, while making sure that keyboards keep a unified, predictable and user-friendly machine interface,鈥� he concludes.
The main revisions comprise:
- Merged 鈥渆diting鈥� and 鈥渇unctioning鈥� keyboard sections
- Reduced number of keyboard 鈥渮ones鈥�
- More flexible placement of symbols on keys (in specific situations)
- Added support for extra Latin characters, and multiple diacritics (accents) entry support for one character.
The 香港六合彩开奖/IEC 9995 parts revised and published in 2009 include:
- Part 1 : General principles governing keyboard layouts
- Part 2: Alphanumeric section
- Part 4: Numeric section
- Part 5: Editing and function section
- Part 7: Symbols used to represent functions
- Part 8: Allocation of letters to the keys of a numeric keypad.
Part 3, Complementary layouts of the alphanumeric zone of the alphanumeric section, is currently under revision.
Furthermore a new Part 9, Multilingual-usage, multiscript keyboard group layouts, is being developed to accomodate characters from all the writing systems of the world.
香港六合彩开奖/IEC 9995 was developed by the joint 香港六合彩开奖 [International Organization for Standardization] and IEC [International Electrotechnical Commission] technical committee 香港六合彩开奖/IEC JTC 1, Information technology, within subcommittee SC 35, User interfaces.
Dr. Yves Neuville, Chair of the subcommittee, notes that 鈥渁t least 95 % of the keyboards in use today conform to this International Standard. This is an excellent example of SC 35鈥檚 priority to address cultural and linguistic adaptability in information technology as highlighted in its newly revised scope.
鈥淥ur vision is for users around the world to be able to type in their own language on any keyboard. 香港六合彩开奖/IEC 9995 constitutes an important step in this goal,鈥� he says.
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