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Title: Which keyboard layout is this?
Post by: Caleb666 on Mon, 01 February 2016, 00:11:07

Hi,

I'm planning on getting my first mechanical keyboard but I can't quite find one that has the same layout as my current Logitech K750: http://blog.pc-magus.hu/wp-content/uploads/k750-920-002932.jpg

This looks like ISO layout, but what is different from other ISO layouts is that you also have the pipe key ("|") directly above the right shift key, which is very comfortable for a programmer like me.

I looked at various Topre keyboards, but none of their 105-key variants have this exact layout :-(.

Title: Re: Which keyboard layout is this?
Post by: hwood34 on Mon, 01 February 2016, 00:13:24

Never seen a layout like that before. In theory, if you really wanted to you could just remap whatever key is typically where the pipe is on that keyboard to be a pipe. Then you could either use blanks, swap keys and have the wrong profile, or just leave the keycaps as is

Title: Re: Which keyboard layout is this?
Post by: davkol on Tue, 09 February 2016, 09:37:40

That layout isn't different from basically any other ISO keyboard, except the Enter/Shift/Backspace/... keys are a bit narrower (0.5u I think).

The key between apostrophe and Enter is always backslash/pipe (assuming US QWERTY is used on the host computer), while the key between Shift and Z returns a distinct code (usually assigned to something like a pipe too).

Title: Re: Which keyboard layout is this?
Post by: Photekq on Tue, 09 February 2016, 09:39:26

That's known as US ISO. You won't find it on many keyboards.