Keyboard layouts are different for different languages because of different letters being used more frequently or less frequently in different languages. I've only recently started using the Amiga again, so I've forgotten some stuff, but the German keyboard layout not only has the letters Z and Y reversed compared with English language keyboard layouts, but the characters you get when pressing SHIFT and some of the top row of keys (the number keys when not shifted) are also different. The German Umlaut characters (with two dots above them) are to the right of the L and P keys, while the Eszett character (which looks like the Greek letter Beta) is to the right of the number zero key. I don't know how many keys a German Amiga keyboard has, but it may well have more than a US Amiga keyboard, so no keys will be missing, but some keys won't print anything if you use a US keymap. You can see the different keymaps in one of the Amiga manuals, as well as by using the program Keytoy. Various other languages have different keyboards or keymaps. Apart from this, the same languages used in different countries also use different keymaps. I seem to remember the Portuguese keymap was the most different from QWERTY. Does anyone know if a Japanese Amiga keymap was ever produced?
Here's a link to a pic of a German A4000 keyboard.
http://www.amiga-hardware.com/download_photos/a4000keyb_german_big.jpg
