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10/1: updated the kits off of your suggestions.
Psst, you still have those R3 '@ and #~ ISO keys in your base kit, as well as the marginally useful 1.75c spacebar in the spacebar kit. As far as the ISO keys go, remove those two and replace them with a R3 \|. Then for the R4 ISO key you have two options: either stick with R4 \| (in which case there will be a duplicate key), or change it to R4 <>.
By the way, you should update the KLE to use | instead of ¦ for the pipe legends.
Yep. True Olivetti is V4 blue
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That blue cap collection is awesome!
we like ¦
ill do more research on iso stuff, you can make your own keyset layouts if you'd like
Ah, the
| vs
¦ war is heating up... finally (?). And it's gonna be nasty, so bare with me while I present facts first and opinions later:
1)
| and
¦ are two separate characters (U+007c VERTICAL LINE and U+00A6 BROKEN BAR). The former has been there from the beginning of ASCII and the latter started up life as a visual anomaly
(this is not a joke), that afterwards got a life of its own
(much like the "grave accent" that later became the "unrelated" backquote).
2) The
| character is heavily used in programming, which is why many national layouts have it readily available, sometimes even in the base layer (see the Spanish (Latin America) layout); meanwhile, the
¦ character sees little actual usage, and is of interest only for typographers.
3) The UK English national layout is governed by a standard, that mandates that
¦ must be placed in the R4 key between Shift and Z, in Shift layer, so we should be talking about the
\¦ key. The same standard places the
| character in the
`¬ key in the AltGr layer (
`¬|).
4) Current usage, however, has changed: since before Windows XP, Microsoft implements the UK English national layout by flipping the assignments for
| and
¦; implementations in other operating systems have followed suit.
5) Other national layouts (Italian, Portuguese and
US English are the most notable examples) also have a
\| key, but those have
always been about the pipe character and not the broken bar. It's the UK English national layout that is an anomaly in this regard.
So...
You may have noticed that I'm very much a "let's do what the standard says, FFS", and in this particular case, we need to be clear on a few things and separate the issues:
0) It's not a matter of "visual style":
| and
¦ are separate characters.
1) For the R1 1.0U and R2 1.5U
\| keys, the symbol used should be
| and not
¦, because those two keys are meant for keyboards with the US English national layout.
By the way, it's wrong to say that the R1 \| key is not useful - it gets used in HHKB style keyboards, where the 2U Backspace key is split into two 1U alphas (\| and `~).2) For the R4 1.0U
\| key... if we go with the UK Enlish national layout standard, it should be
\¦, but current usage mandates
\| instead. Given that the document's position is an oddity, and current usage has changed, I would suggest going with the latter.
