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Well of course it's not identical - they were assembled independently (this one by some random schmoe in New York) optimized for different letter and digram frequencies in different languages. I'm actually impressed by how similar they are.

Another reason for difference, aside from frequency differences in the two languages, is that this keyboard distinguishes some characters that aren't on modern Hebrew keyboards. For example, there are separate אָ and א, בּ and ב, etc.

And double yod and double vov. Microsoft still had a proper Yiddish keyboard map available. Apple doesn’t.

Microsoft still had a proper Yiddish keyboard map available

Do they?

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