Trying to find out how difficult (or not) it will be to switch from iso layout to ansi. Main reason is the much better choice of keycaps that will be available.

Have any of you made the switch ? If so how difficult was it ?

  • codemonk@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I switched from ISO to ANSI a few month ago. I touch type and I need German umlauts. Just as a background. This required me to find a layout that supports umlauts. I went with EurKEY. Overall, switching was easy. I do need a larger AltGr for umlauts but overall, switching was no big deal. I do like the shape of the return key on ANSI and that there are fewer keys right to my right pinky (on the home row). Typing umlauts is slightly less convenient, especially when capitalized, but not by much. Switching between ISO and ANSI and at the same time German layout and EurKEY is easy for me. Side note: I switched for the same reason (keycaps) and for writing code.

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      1 year ago

      Nice to know. I’m also an ISO-DE user. I assume you use standard US ANSI keycaps and then in either the OS or Firmware you make the EurKEY binds for the modifiers ?

      So far I have been having US international in Windows Setup. Seems to work okay ish so far but I don’t type German that offen. Mostly coding and English.

      Different shape return needs getting used to and constantly mistake where the “?” Key and braces are.

      I will look into EurKEY thanks for the reply already.

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    1 year ago

    Makes one wonder, why did ANSI become the de-facto standard in the mech keyboard community? Is it because of higher purchase power of US enthusiasts, or something else?

    From a volume standpoint, wouldn’t ISO make more sense?

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    1 year ago

    Main reason is the much better choice of keycaps that will be available.

    That’s the problem with this hobby. I’m really used to ANSI ES and it’s a pain to get spanish keycaps. My solution was go for 40% and forget about what’s printed on keycaps.

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        1 year ago

        Lots of layers and not having a problem with being slower. 40% is definitely not faster. It’s more ergonomic in my opinion, though.

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    I use US ANSI keyboards from time to time. Enter key and the keys behind it used to be quite some deal before I started adapting to it. Haven’t heard of EURkey yet, so I went with us-international. One thing that bothered me there though: There is no uppercase ßẞ.

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          1 year ago

          I guess could have figured that out. To be fair the lower case ß is big enough that it fits into full caps words like STRAßE. Imo not much difference to STRAẞE. But that’s subjective obviously and a fair complaint to miss that.