Dan MorenInteresting change between the M4 and M5 generations of MacBook: Apple’s replaced some of the keyboard labels with glyphs alone: tab, caps lock, shift, delete, and return. Fn, Control, Option, Command, and esc all retain their labels.
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@nileane Yeah, it’s been like this outside the US for a while. But the US ones have had the labels for years.
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Magnus Ahltorp@dmoren @nileane I always found it quaint that Apple US keyboards used only text for the shift key. It doesn’t even match the shortcut icon in the menus. And it doesn’t match the iOS keyboards.
On all the keyboard pictures I can find, Mac keyboards have always (since the original Mac) used text for the shift key in the US and the symbol everywhere else.
They often use the English names for control, option and command even on non-English keyboards, so it’s not like it’s for localisation.
Young Thos@nileane @dmoren I couldn't resist joining in on the fun: this is a 2012 11" MacBook Air with the hyper-niche French-Canadian QWERTY layout 😎
@NeueWelle @nileane Whoa. That is bonkers?! What is happening down there?
@dmoren @nileane The familiar QWERTY layout you know and love, augmented for the typing of the finest French diacriticals. What's not to love? 😅
Even more bonkers, the Windows French-Canadian QWERTY keyboard I have to use for work differs from the Mac one in non-trivial ways lol
But it still beats my childhood learning French in Western Canada, when we had to memorize the four digit Windows ALT codes for all the accented characters because French keyboards weren't available outside Quebec 🫠