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Title: Hello from a "QWERTZ" ÄÖÜ country (With question regarding ANSI <-> ISO)
Post by: masterchris_99 on Thu, 25 July 2019, 02:50:30

Hello,

every year I have a new project. This year 2 because of some more time because of parental leave.
The first project is a Kubernetes Cluster with 10 Raspberrys

The second project is a gift for myself because of a new job... :-)

I want to build 2 keyboards. One for home and one for work.

I think I've read enough to understand the basics and now I want to select the needed parts. But there is already the first issue.

• ANSI & ; the possible PCBs with -support are very reduced
• but much worse are the Keycaps (ÜÄÖ)

Because of these issues, I'm thinking about switching to ANSI.

I'm a software developer. Lots of writing is still in . So Umlauts (ÜÄÖ) are still mandatory.

My question is: I think lots of you  guys did the switch to ANSI. Is it practicable during normal writing/working? Did you resolved this by Fn + a, Fn + o and Fn + u?

Thanks, Christopher

Title: Re: Hello from a "QWERTZ" ÄÖÜ country (With question regarding ANSI <-> ISO)
Post by: Surefoot on Thu, 25 July 2019, 03:04:16

Another ISO country user here. I switched to UK ISO which is fine for me and keeps a good compromise for coding (easy access to brackets, slashes, etc.) and familiar layout, also being an international worker i do have to use a lot of workplace keyboards that are qwerty ISO.
For you you might want to stick to keysets that offer NorDeUk support, there are still a few of them. The 'De' part is your ISO DE keys.

Title: Re: Hello from a "QWERTZ" ÄÖÜ country (With question regarding ANSI <-> ISO)
Post by: Waven on Thu, 25 July 2019, 04:20:42

I'm also from a ÄÖÜ country and switched over to ANSI.
I use the EurKEY layout: https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu (https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu)

It's based on the US layout and you can use AltGr + aou to get the umlauts.