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Buying International Keyboards?

Posted by Cliff on from the not-everything-is-QWERTY dept.

dmayle asks: "I've been investigating the purchase of some non-US keyboards for the flexibility it would give me in correspondences (easy access to the Euro symbol, accented characters, etc.). Specifically, I've been looking at U.K. keyboards, which are still QWERTY (as opposed to the German QWERTZ, or the French AZERTY), even if some of the punctuation is placed a little differently. The problem I have is that I can't find a U.K. company willing to ship keyboards out of the U.K. So, where does the Slashdot crowd go to satisfy their internationalization need? Any favorite importers? (Not just for keyboards, but in general.)"

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  1. You know... by andfarm · · Score: 4, Informative
    you can change the keyboard layout to -- say -- the UK layout without having a UK keyboard, since, IIRC, UK users have 104 keyboards just like us, except with different key caps.

    On the other hand, I was down in Central America recently and saw that many keyboards there have at least 108 keys, some even more. (Extra keys for and such.) YMMV.

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  2. PCKeyboard.com by Momomoto · · Score: 5, Informative

    PCKeyboard.com stocks non-USA keyboards in five flavours: French, German, Latin American, Spanish, and UK. They're $79 a pop, but they're built like tanks and will last longer than your computer.

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  3. You don't need an international keyboard by prostoalex · · Score: 5, Informative

    You need international stickers that you can put on your own keyboard. For Windows you need Keyboard Layout Manager to set up your own layouts from whatever alphabets you have on your machine. For Linux I think there's XMaps, but I might be wrong.