Editing QWERTY (section)

===<span id="Finnish multilingual keyboard"></span>Finnish multilingual===
[[File:KB Finnish Multilingual.svg|thumb|upright 1.5|[[Languages of Finland|Finnish multilingual]] keyboard layout]]
The visual layout used in [[Finland]] is basically the same as the [[#Swedish|Swedish layout]]. This is practical, as [[Finnish language|Finnish]] and [[Swedish language|Swedish]] share the special characters [[Ä|Ä/ä]] and [[Ö|Ö/ö]], and while the Swedish [[Å|Å/å]] is unnecessary for writing Finnish, it is needed by [[Swedish-speaking Finns]] and to write Swedish family names which are common.

As of 2008, there is a new standard for the Finnish multilingual keyboard layout, developed as part of a [[Internationalization and localization|localization]] project by [[CSC – IT Center for Science|CSC]]. All the engravings of the traditional Finnish–Swedish visual layout have been retained, so there is no need to change the hardware, but the functionality has been extended considerably, as additional characters (e.g., [[Æ|Æ/æ]], [[Ə|Ə/ə]], [[Ʒ|Ʒ/ʒ]]) are available through the {{Key press|[[AltGr key|AltGr]]}} key, as well as [[dead key]]s, which allow typing a wide variety of letters with [[diacritic]]s (e.g., [[Ç|Ç/ç]], [[Ǥ|Ǥ/ǥ]], [[Ǯ|Ǯ/ǯ]]).<ref>{{Citation | url = http://sales.sfs.fi/sfs/servlets/ProductServlet?action=showproduct&productid=210467 | title = SFS 5966 | format = keyboard layout | publisher = Finnish Standards Association SFS | date = 3 November 2008 | access-date = 19 April 2015 | archive-date = 5 December 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141205212152/http://sales.sfs.fi/sfs/servlets/ProductServlet?action=showproduct&productid=210467 | url-status = live }}. Finnish-Swedish multilingual keyboard setting.</ref><ref>{{Citation | last = Kotoistus | url = http://kotoistus.fi/nappaimisto_htm | title = Uusi näppäinasettelu | trans-title = Status of the new Keyboard Layout | language = fi, en | format = presentation page collecting drafts of the Finnish Multilingual Keyboard | publisher = [[CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd.|CSC IT Center for Science]] | date = 12 December 2006 | access-date = 19 April 2015 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150427111436/http://kotoistus.fi/nappaimisto_htm | archive-date = 27 April 2015 | df = dmy-all }}</ref>

Based on the [[Latin script|Latin]] letter repertory included in the Multilingual European Subset No. 2 ([[MES-2]]) of the Unicode standard, the layout has three main objectives. First, it provides for easy entering of text in both Finnish and Swedish, the two official [[languages of Finland]], using the familiar keyboard layout but adding some advanced punctuation options, such as [[dash]]es, typographical [[Quotation mark, non-English usage|quotation marks]], and the [[non-breaking space]] (NBSP).

Second, it is designed to offer an indirect but intuitive way to enter the special letters and diacritics needed by the other three [[Nordic countries|Nordic]] national languages ([[Danish language|Danish]], [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]] and [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]]) as well as the regional and minority languages ([[Northern Sámi]], [[Southern Sámi]], [[Lule Sámi]], [[Inari Sámi language|Inari Sámi]], [[Skolt Sami language|Skolt Sámi]], [[Romani language]] as spoken in Finland, [[Faroese language|Faroese]], [[Greenlandic language|Kalaallisut]] also known as Greenlandic, and [[German language|German]]).

As a third objective, it allows for relatively easy entering of particularly names (of persons, places or products) in a variety of European languages using a more or less extended Latin alphabet, such as the official [[languages of the European Union]] (excluding [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]] and [[Modern Greek|Greek]]). Some letters, like [[Ł|Ł/ł]] needed for Slavic languages, are accessed by a special "overstrike" key combination acting like a dead key.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Kotoistus |title=Precomposed characters in the new Finnish keyboard layout specification |url=http://kotoistus.fi/kbpcse.pdf |pages=10 |date=29 June 2006 |access-date=19 April 2015 |language=en |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304105405/http://kotoistus.fi/kbpcse.pdf |archive-date=4 March 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
Initially the [[Romanian language|Romanian]] letters [[Ș|Ș/ș]] and [[Ț|Ț/ț]] (S/s and T/t with [[comma below]]) were not supported (the presumption was that [[Ş|Ş/ş]] and [[Ţ|Ţ/ţ]] (with [[cedilla]]) would suffice as surrogates), however the layout was updated in 2019 to include the letters with the commas as well.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Korpela |first1=Jukka |title=Suomalainen monikielinen näppäimistö |trans-title=Finnish multilingual keyboard |url=https://jkorpela.fi/uusinappis.html#uusi |access-date=11 January 2023 |language=Finnish |archive-date=11 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230111090633/https://jkorpela.fi/uusinappis.html#uusi |url-status=live }}</ref>
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