Legends

Place the mouse over the image to display the traditional keyboard.
Place the mouse outside the image to display the Updated Italian Keyboard.

In the diagram above, the keys whose legends in traditional Italian keyboard match perfectly with Updated Italian Keyboard mapping have been left blank. In keys where there is some difference, characters that match perfectly are shown in grey, and characters that differ are shown black. Slide the mouse pointer over the image or outside of it to compare the two keyboards.

Given that an example of correct legends for the Updated Italian Keyboard is the one shown in the photograph above, this page describes the differences from traditional keyboard legends.

Note that in the Updated Italian Keyboard the uppercase accented vowels are typed as simply as any other uppercase character, by just adding the Shift modifier to the lowercase character. In order for this to be possible some characters are repositioned with respect to the traditional Italian keyboard:

• e with acute ( é ) has been moved from 2^nd position of the è key to 1^st position of the < (less than) key
• less than and greater than ( < > ) have been moved to 3^rd position of the z and x keys
• degree ( ° ) has been moved from 2^nd position of the à key to 4^th position of the ò key
• circumflex ( ^ ) has been moved from 2^nd to 3^rd position of the ì key
• c with cedilla ( ç ) has been removed from the ò key, and relocated to the layer of cedilla
• paragraph symbol ( § ) has been moved from 2^nd to 3^rd position of the ù key
• Euro symbol, which the traditional Italian keyboard maps both in 3^rd position of the e key and in 3^rd position of the 5 key, in the Updated Italian Keyboard is only located in 3^rd position of the key 5.

The above points describe all the discrepancies between the legends of the traditional Italian keyboard and the character map of the Updated Italian Keyboard. Note that, apart from the é, they affect rarely used characters.