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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Retox on Thu, 20 October 2011, 18:47:27

Title: US English Keycaps on Chinese Board
Post by: Retox on Thu, 20 October 2011, 18:47:27: If I buy the g80-3494 with reds from PCHome (the keycaps are chinese), can I just replace the keycaps with standard english ones and use it? Or would I have to change language settings in windows 7 or something.
Title: US English Keycaps on Chinese Board
Post by: HWI on Thu, 20 October 2011, 19:05:56: I am not familiar with that specific keyboard, but you can just change the keycaps. The keyboard isn't going to change the language you have set in Windows.
Title: US English Keycaps on Chinese Board
Post by: spolia optima on Thu, 20 October 2011, 19:16:28: Yeah, totally. The layout should be standard US ANSI, but with extra chinese letters, same as the fabled G80-3000LSCRC-2
Don't hold me to this, though. I don't have the 3494... Just making an educated guess.
Title: US English Keycaps on Chinese Board
Post by: Tony on Thu, 20 October 2011, 20:54:50: Yes.
Title: US English Keycaps on Chinese Board
Post by: noodles256 on Thu, 20 October 2011, 21:00:16: its impossible you can't mix them!
Title: US English Keycaps on Chinese Board
Post by: spolia optima on Thu, 20 October 2011, 21:04:30: [ATTACH=CONFIG]29274[/ATTACH]
Annyong!
Title: US English Keycaps on Chinese Board
Post by: noodles256 on Thu, 20 October 2011, 21:05:15: annyeong*
Title: US English Keycaps on Chinese Board
Post by: spolia optima on Thu, 20 October 2011, 21:09:43: Quote from: noodles256;435756
annyeong*
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Title: US English Keycaps on Chinese Board
Post by: Hak Foo on Thu, 20 October 2011, 21:54:00: People used to get the Chinese-lettered -3000 all the time a few years back when it was cheap. They work transparently as US English.
Title: US English Keycaps on Chinese Board
Post by: spolia optima on Thu, 20 October 2011, 22:02:04: Quote from: Hak Foo;435799
People used to get the Chinese-lettered -3000 all the time a few years back when it was cheap. They work transparently as US English.

Lol yes, I bought FIVE of them.
That was a fun christmas
Title: US English Keycaps on Chinese Board
Post by: Retox on Thu, 20 October 2011, 22:06:53: Good to know.. although I have my sights set on a g80-1865 that i will be converting to ergo clears. I can't make up my mind! there are too many ugly cherry boards to choose from!
Title: US English Keycaps on Chinese Board
Post by: laffindude on Fri, 21 October 2011, 03:21:19: Bopomo is not the same system as Pinyin. Pinyin is used in China, and uses Latin alphabet. Bopomofo is the phonetic symbols on the Taiwanese board (Taiwan also have different romanization rules). The keyboard send the same keycode. The Chinese conversion is done in OS, so the boards themselves are just cosmetically different.