SL> Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: SL> ... SL> `Normal'? `Normal'??? It's _not_ a normal keyboard for any canonical SL> meaning of normal. The parens are shifted left to be above `8' and SL> `9', `"' and `＠' are on the wrong keys, the square and curly braces SL> are on the wrong keys. The key labeled `\' doesn't do anything. The SL> key labeled `￥' generates `\', there is no `~' key, instead there's SL> an overline key that generates `~'. The space bar is tiny and crowded SL> by huge Kanji, Hiragana, and Muhenkan keys. It's offset enough from SL> where my thumb usually sits that I'm constantly mistyping it. But even with all those cultural mods, the Backspace and Delete keys are approximately in the same spot where the original IBM 101 keyboard designers put them, which would tend to suggest that the acceptance of this particular defacto standard is pretty high. SL> I used to be a touch typist. Maybe I will be again some day ... xmodmap is your friend.