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by user5994461 2764 days ago
Qwerty is not the standard of anything except the US. In fact, qwerty is not even a standard, there are many different qwerty layouts.

Do you know that UK and US keyboards are completely different, for example they have all the punctuation characters in different places.

By the way, people don't select their keyboard layouts, they just happen to have whatever they have and I guarantee you that hardly anybody knows how to change settings or want to.
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rapnie 2764 days ago
Yes. For reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout

https://www.terena.org/activities/multiling/ml-mua/test/kbd-...

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tazard 2764 days ago
Completely different is a bit of a stretch. I'm pretty sure the WASD keys are the same in both, coincidentally those are the four keys this game uses.

And some people do select their layouts. Dvorak, Colemak etc

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