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February 2016 | février 2016
Finding an old typewriter: Hermès Baby I recently restored a Hermès Baby typewriter to replace an IBM Selectric II with a French keyboard that no longer works and apparently cannot be repaired. They keyboard layout on the Hermès Baby is unusual as it uses the standard US layout modified to allow typing accented characters for most romance languages for example: ç, ê, è, ë etc. It appears to be a French Canadian layout from a brief Internet search (Keyboard Layouts). A typewriter is still useful in our computer age to type addresses on envelopes or short notes & labels. Initially the keys were frozen, I found a YouTube video explaining how to loosen the keys by brushing denatured alcohool and letting the keys soak in the fluid and gradually working the keys loose then adding a little greaseless lubricant LPS1. There is a controversy in France where the French Ministry of Culture has ordered the Standards Agency to set rules for a keyboard layout (some special characters are not always located in the same place). As mentioned in the French text below, the issue is less important for minor characters and any major change will be troublesome for touch typersthough many French people do not touch-type because they never learned in schoolonly secretaries where taught to type sight unseen.
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