US vs UK keyboards

[mmarsh]

I live in France

I want to buy a QWERTY keyboard I am having trouble finding one. I was wondering if there's a difference between US and UK keyboards. If not maybe I'll get one from the UK.
Does anyone know? By the way if anyone knows a online computer store thats ships internationally in the USA I'll take that as well.

Thanks
Matt

 

[BillLeeLee]

UK and US keyboard layouts are nearly the same, except for these differences that I found on a website.

The United Kingdom layout is similar to the United States, except that the " and @ keys are switched around, the key above right shift immediately to the left of the Enter key is # and ~ when shifted, rather than \ and |, shift-3 gives a £ sign, and AltGr-4 gives a € sign. Also, the key to the immediate left of numeral 1 (backtick, `) gives ¬ when shifted (not ~), and AltGr-` gives ¦ (broken pipe, not the same as |).

The letter layout is the same though - you know QWERTYUIOP, etc...