<Li> the Enter key spans two rows, and is narrower to accommodate the #key </Li> <Li> Some UK keyboards do not label Backspace, Enter, Tab and Shift in words </Li> <P> On laptop computers, the and \ key is often placed next to the space bar . </P> <P> Early versions of Windows handled both the differences between the two keyboards and the differences between American English and British English by having two English language options--a UK setting and a US setting . While adequate for users in the United States, United Kingdom, and Ireland, this solution caused difficulty in other English - speaking countries . In many Commonwealth countries and other English - speaking jurisdictions (e.g., Canada, Australia, the Caribbean nations, Hong Kong, Malaysia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Singapore, New Zealand, and South Africa), local spelling conformed more closely to British English usage, while the supplied keyboard was printed with the United States layout on the keys . People in these countries were forced to choose between a keyboard layout incompatible with their hardware, or having their spell checker software flag the British English spelling of words such as "colour", "centre", etc . </P>

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