Story: There's no escape from qwerty typecasting

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No debating that a common standard will win out regardless of whether it's "the best", and that people prefer to stick with what they're familiar with.

But the trouble is that querty isn't in fact unversal. Try going to France and dropping into an Internet café - azerty, aarrrgh! There's also qwertz, though I'm not sure what countries are addicted to that one. Any other subtle mind-bending variations?

And even British and US keyboards are different in their placing of punctuation, which can be equally irritating - I never did understand the origins of that one.

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