[Superh3ro]

Wirelessly posted

Hey yall

I just realized there is a qwertz rather than qwerty keyboards javelins!

Why did they make them?

Can it be fixed?

[markhutchison]

Wirelessly posted (8130, Bell Mobility)

The QWERTZ layout is used in several different countries as standard instead of QWERTY. If you have a QWERTZ device there's no way to change it to QWERTY.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwertz

[Superh3ro]

Wirelessly posted

Ok so on the qwertz

Does the letter z and y swtiched
Or it displayed qwerty
But when you press the y gives you z?

[markhutchison]

Wirelessly posted (8130, Bell Mobility)

The top row of keys is QWERTZ. The screen displays the letter that you type.

[bolin]

Why did they make them?

central europe works with the qwertz.
its a very small and marginal minor region of the globe.
sry when we use this...

[iLawCDN]

QWERTZ is a European spec keyboard; although parts of Europe use QWERTY too.

QWERTY is N. American

[dc/dc]

The technical reason for this is because the letter z appears much more frequently than the letter y in German and other Germanic languages. On French and Belgian BlackBerry devices, the keyboard layout will be AZERTY.

[chadderbox]

It can't be "fixed". If your device is a QWERTZ then it's going to stay that way even if you swap the keypad the device will stay with the Y & Z keys swithed. The only way to have it as a QWERTY is to buy it that way...