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The difference is the fact that the Canadian bilingual keyboard has a function key that changes the letters to the various characters needed when one is writing in French.
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The first typewriters had a writing ball instead of keyboard. These typewriters was called writing balls.
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The first typewriter commercially available was the Hansen Writing Ball of 1870. the keyboard is difficult to describe (see the picture linked below). It contained the letters of the English alphabet, numbers 2-9, and several special characters.
The Phoenicians are credited with developing a writing system made up of 22 characters known as the Phoenician alphabet. This alphabet served as the basis for many modern writing systems, including Greek and Latin.
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Malayalam characters are typed in word-processors like PageMaker, Ms-Word, etc. using keyboard software pieces like Supersoft 'Thoolika' ISM, etc. When run, they will change the keyboard to Malayalam Keyboard. If you want Malayalam Unicode characters (They can be used in online texts), try to use software packages like 'Varamozhi Editor', 'BabelPad', etc. Search in Google to get your desired package.