CANADIAN KEYBOARD STANDARD FOR ENGLISH AND FRENCH LANGUAGES

Available format(s)

Hardcopy , PDF

Language(s)

French, English

Published date

01-01-2016

Publisher

Canadian Standards Association

Technical Committee on Text and Office Systems
Preface
1 Scope
2 Definitions
3 Reference Publications
4 Conformance
   4.1 General
   4.2 Conformance Level A
   4.3 Conformance Level B
   4.4 Conformance Level C
   4.5 Default Conformance Level
5 General and Physical Requirements
   5.1 Primary Keyboard Layout
   5.2 Secondary Keyboard Layout
   5.3 Alphanumeric and Shift Keys
   5.4 Keyboard Layouts
   5.5 Group Shift
   5.6 Operation of Keys with Diacritical Marks
   5.7 Key Labelling
Figures
Tables
Appendices
A - Group Shift
B - Valid Combinations of Diacritical Marks and
    Letters Used in the French Language
C - Valid Combinations of Diacritical Marks and
    Letters Used in this Standard

This Standard specifies requirements for keyboards to be used throughout Canada for word, information, and data-processing applications.

DocumentType	Standard
Pages	36
ProductNote	Reconfirmed F
PublisherName	Canadian Standards Association
Status	Current
Supersedes	CSA Z243.200 : 1992 : R2001

ISO/IEC 9995-6:2006	Information technology Keyboard layouts for text and office systems Part 6: Function section
ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998	Information technology 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1
CSA T500 : 0	VIDEOTEX/TELETEXT PRESENTATION LEVEL PROTOCOL SYNTAX (NORTH AMERICAN PLPS)
ISO/IEC 9995-2:2009	Information technology — Keyboard layouts for text and office systems — Part 2: Alphanumeric section
CSA Z243.19 : 1985	CORRESPONDENCE TYPEWRITER KEYBOARD LAYOUT FOR THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH LANGUAGES
ISO/IEC 9995-5:2009	Information technology Keyboard layouts for text and office systems Part 5: Editing and function section
ISO/IEC 10367:1991	Information technology Standardized coded graphic character sets for use in 8-bit codes
ISO/IEC 9995-7:2009	Information technology Keyboard layouts for text and office systems Part 7: Symbols used to represent functions
ISO/IEC 9995-1:2009	Information technology — Keyboard layouts for text and office systems — Part 1: General principles governing keyboard layouts
ISO/IEC 9995-4:2009	Information technology — Keyboard layouts for text and office systems — Part 4: Numeric section
ISO/IEC 6937:2001	Information technology Coded graphic character set for text communication Latin alphabet
ISO/IEC 9995-3:2010	Information technology — Keyboard layouts for text and office systems — Part 3: Complementary layouts of the alphanumeric zone of the alphanumeric section