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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: MrPhil on Sun, 23 October 2011, 15:21:50

Title: French Swiss Layout
Post by: MrPhil on Sun, 23 October 2011, 15:21:50

Hi Guys

A mate of mine is looking for a tenkeyless swiss-french layout keyboard and i wonder if you know where i can start looking for one?
Mechanical preferably but anything is fine just to get things rolling
Thanks!

-Phil

Title: French Swiss Layout
Post by: SBI on Sun, 23 October 2011, 15:38:51

If you have a saw, that's probably a tool to start working with. Might not have a functioning keyboard afterwards.

I'm Swiss myself, finding Keyboards with our layouts is practically impossible. If your looking for something compact, you might want to take a look at something like the G80 compact versions. And keep in mind that CH_DE and CH_FR are practically the same save for the accent keys, which only have the position of 2 characters changed (same letters on the key, but just a switched position). Might give you more to look for.

Title: French Swiss Layout
Post by: MrPhil on Sun, 23 October 2011, 16:21:13

Thanks SBI!

I'll tell my mate about the German and French layouts to see if they're what he was after. I think he mentioned with the french layout that you had to press shift to get the numbers, rather then the numbers being the default for those keys

Have you ever used this swiss website?
http://en.toppreise.ch/grp3_144.html

Title: French Swiss Layout
Post by: zulios on Mon, 24 October 2011, 00:09:11

Quote from: MrPhil;437526

with the french layout that you had to press shift to get the numbers, rather then the numbers being the default for those keys

True, but whatever keyboard you choose its behavior will still depend on your os. Just switch to swiss layout and you will be fine, as long as the keycaps and physical layout do not get you to be confused.

Title: French Swiss Layout
Post by: SBI on Mon, 24 October 2011, 09:30:33

The French (AZERTY) layout has practically nothing to do with the Swiss (QWERTZ) layout. The french-swiss layout uses exactly the same layout except for 3 keys. Source :) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Switzerland.28German.2C_French.2C_Italian.2C_Romansh.29.2C_Liechtenstein.2C_Luxembourg). And nope, I've never used Toppreise before. Digitec (http://www.digitec.ch) stocks quite a few G80s though, and they have been helpful in the past in getting certain layouts and board combinations to Switzerland from Cherry that aren't on the website.

Title: French Swiss Layout
Post by: MrPhil on Mon, 24 October 2011, 17:54:57

Thanks guys! I'll pass on the info, much appreciated :)