Executive Overview
Keyboards are the primary means for users to enter textual data. In most cases, developers today can ignore keyboard-related issues since they are handled by the platform. A basic understanding of keyboards and how they differ around the world, however, can help avoid problems, and can be useful in doing globalization testing.
Further reading
Global keyboard layouts -- graphical schematic of keyboards used around the world, showing the graphic characters that can be accessed at different groups and shift levels, their IBM GCGIDs, dead key attributes, character names and their Unicode code points.
