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I'm shopping for a T530 in Canada. I'm offered 3 keyboard layouts: French, Canadian French and ACNOR French. Where can I see those layouts to choose? I tried chatting with the sales people, they have no idea.

Hello,

Wikipedia has an article on keyboard layouts.

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

I have never seen any of Lenovo's French or Canadian French keyboard layouts in person, so i can't guarantee that Lenovo means the same thing as Wikipedia when talking about different layouts.

This is what Wikipedia calls a French layout:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_France.svg

This is Wikipedia's perception of a Canadian French (Québec) keyboard:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Ca ... h_text.svg

And this is the ACNOR layout:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ACNOR_keyboard.jpg

[quote="TTY"]Hello,

Wikipedia has an article on keyboard layouts.

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

I have never seen any of Lenovo's French or Canadian French keyboard layouts in person, so i can't guarantee that Lenovo means the same thing as Wikipedia when talking about different layouts.
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Thanks! That's interesting to see that what IBM called the French Canadian keyboard on my T41 would now be ACNOR French. Let's hope Lenovo does follow these layouts because the sales people don't know and the online help associated with this choice doesn't help at all (other than telling me the classic Thinkpad keyboard has changed in 2012