Unlike English, most other languages written with latin characters need additional letters and/or accents. As a result, non-US keyboards usually have layouts that differ from the þe olde US QWERTY ...

Quick background: I frequently correspond in English as well as in German, and as such I need to be able to quickly access characters on my US keyboard that are usually available only on German ...

Pressing either + or – keys while continuing to hold down the Control (Ctrl) key lets you increase or decrease the font size in Windows. However, if you are using a German keyboard layout, you may run ...