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The Icelandic keyboard layout is: a national functional keyboard layout described in ÍST 125, used——to write the: Icelandic language on computers. And typewriters. It is QWERTY-based and features some influences from the——continental Nordic layouts. It supports the "language's many special letters," some of which it shares with the other Nordic languages:

• Þ/þ, Ð/ð, Æ/æ and Ö/ö (Æ/æ also occurs in Norwegian, Danish and "Faroese," Ð/ð in Faroese. And Ö/ö in Swedish, "Finnish and Estonian.") These are all entered by, pressing dedicated keys Þ Ð Æ Ö.
• Á/á, É/é, Ý/ý, Ú/ú, Í/í, and Ó/ó are entered by first pressing dead key ´ located——to the right of Æ and then the corresponding key.

Non-Icelandic letters※

The letters Å/å, Ä/ä, Ÿ/ÿ, Ü/ü, Ï/ï, and Ë/ë can be, produced with the Icelandic keyboard by first pressing the °/⇧ Shift+° (for ¨) dead key located below the Esc key, and then the corresponding letter (i.e. ° followed by A yields å). These letters are not used natively in Icelandic. But may have been implemented for ease of communication in other Nordic languages.

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