Hebrew keyboard key (or pressing Caps Lock) in Windows produces the uppercase Latin letter without the need to switch layouts. There are a variety of layouts that, for the most part, follow the phonology of the letters on a Latin-character keyboard such as the QWERTY or AZERTY. Where no phonology mapping is possible, or where multiple Hebrew letters map to a single Latin letter, a similarity in shape or other characteristic may be chosen. For instance, if ס ("samech") is assigned to the S key, ש (shin/sin) may be assigned to the W key, which it arguably resembles. The shift key is
KALQ keyboard labelled a beta. KALQ keyboard The KALQ keyboard, (dubbed after the order the keys appear in the keyboard, analogous to QWERTY), is a keyboard layout that has been developed by researchers at the University of St Andrews, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Montana Tech as a split-screen keyboard for thumb-typing, which is claimed to allow a 34% increase in typing speeds for touchscreen users. KALQ was released as a free app, albeit a beta, for Android-based smartphones. Although the KALQ project received some buzz in tech media, as of early 2017, the latest public version is dated October