EN_US keyboard vs the rest

[einsteinbqat]

I have been wondering something about this particularity of American/US English Mac keyboards (have not paid attention if it is the case for Windows, too). Why is it that they have labels on their keys when other keyboards do not, not even EN_GB keyboards?

Where EN_US keys have labels such as 'return', 'shift', 'caps lock', 'home', 'end', etc., other languages (French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, British, Chinese, etc.) have symbols.

Anyone knows why?

 

[Brookzy]

I think it's historically related to the ISO standard. Most European layouts are based on the ISO standard.

However, Apple has been messing around with the labelling recently. My British MacBook Pro has the full text labels as well as symbols on Control, Option, and Command, but not on Shift or Caps Lock.

 

[einsteinbqat]

I see. Still interesting that the en-US is not ISO-based.