But I think international keyboards allow you to punch a key with the accent mark (or inverted one), the umlaut, or a tilde in combination with a letter. Those keys (save for the tilde) do not exist on keyboards here in the States at all. We have to do the alt + a 3 or 4 number combination to achieve these characters. Even if the actual keys don't exist, just the fact that motti's keyboard allows him to achieve these characters with only two keys punched is still a step up on how we have to do it here in the States.

I had a friend who had an international keyboard that had all those characters on it. It was a while back though.