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The “T2” layout as specified in the 2012 edition of the German standard also uses the group selection to access special characters like the long s, or foreign characters like “ Æ” or “ Ə”. “”, the euro sign “€”, or the micro- “µ”).

It employs dead keys to type accented characters like “é”, and the AltGr key to access characters in the third level (e.g. The current edition DIN 2137:2012-06 standardizes it as the first (basic) one of three layouts, calling it “T1” ( Tastaturbelegung 1, or “keyboard layout 1”). The PC keyboard layout commonly used in Germany and Austria is based on one defined in a former edition (October 1988) of the German standard DIN 2137-2. The characters shown in black are present in the traditional “T1” layout also. German keyboard layout “T2” according to DIN 2137:2012-06.

Many German-speaking regions use this layout, but the German-speaking East Cantons of Belgium use the AZERTY instead. The QWERTZ layout is fairly widely used in Germany and in the majority of Central European and Balkan countries that use the Latin script. Esc and ↵ Enter on the numeric keypad are not translated, however. In German and Austrian keyboards, most of the other abbreviated labels are in German: Ctrl (control) is translated to its German equivalent "Strg" for Steuerung, and Delete is abbreviated "Entf" ( entfernen). Some of the special key inscriptions are often changed from an abbreviation to a graphical symbol (for example ⇪ Caps Lock becomes a hollow arrow pointing up, ← Backspace becomes a left-pointing arrow).

The placements of some special symbols are changed when compared to the English (UK and US) versions of QWERTY.

This is necessary because the language-specific characters leave no room to have all the special symbols of ASCII, needed by programmers among others, available on the first or second (shifted) levels without unduly increasing the size of the keyboard.

QWERTZ keyboards usually change the right Alt key into an Alt Gr key to access a third level of key assignments.

umlauted vowels ( ä, ö, ü) in German and Austrian keyboards.

Part of the keyboard is adapted to include language-specific characters, e.g.

Similar to many other non-English keyboards: Zu, meaning "to" in German, and also a very common prefix can also be written very easily.

T and Z often appear next to each other in the German orthography, and typewriter jamming would be reduced by placing the two keys so they could be typed with separate hands.

Z is a much more common letter than Y in German the latter rarely appears outside words whose spellings reflect either their importation from a foreign language or the Hellenization of an older German form under the influence of Ludwig I of Bavaria.

This change was made for three major reasons: The main difference between QWERTZ and QWERTY is that the positions of the Z and Y keys are switched (hence the nickname " kezboard").