Keyboard guides

Guides built from the same layout data as the keyboards: every key and count is computed, not typed by hand. Start with Keyboard layouts of the world.

• Keyboard layouts of the worldWhat 206 Windows keyboard layouts have in common: QWERTY, QWERTZ and AZERTY families, 37 writing systems, dead keys, AltGr and the ISO key.
• Dead keys explainedHow dead keys work, the accents 86 Windows layouts put on them, and the full US International combination table.
• Hebrew keyboard layoutThe full Hebrew keyboard layout key by key, how the two Windows Hebrew layouts differ, and where niqqud, final letters and punctuation are.
• Hebrew final lettersThe five Hebrew final letters (sofit forms), when to use them, their Unicode code points and the key for each one on a Hebrew keyboard.
• Arabic harakat on the keyboardWhere fatha, damma, kasra, sukun, shadda and tanween are on Arabic, Persian and Urdu keyboards, and how to type a word with harakat.
• How to type KoreanType Korean on any keyboard: the Dubeolsik layout, all 19 consonants and 21 vowels with their keys, compound vowels and the 11 double finals.
• Romaji chartA complete romaji chart for hiragana and katakana, built from the 322-rule mozc table: both spellings, yoon, small tsu, ん and long vowels.
• Russian keyboard layoutThe full ЙЦУКЕН Russian keyboard layout, the phonetic Mnemonic layout and the Typewriter variant, with every letter's key on all three.
• How to add a keyboard languageAdd a Hebrew, Arabic, Russian or any other keyboard language on Windows 11, Mac, iPhone and Android, and switch between them, from the official steps.