- If you are including an Alt Gr key on the base kit, include the tertiary legends for the UK ISO layout.
- If we are trying to be faithful to the original GMK set, it used broken pipe keys (¦), which I personally like more. There are other subtle differences with that one but I don't mind them.
Unfortunately, these two things do not go together. The
`¬¦ key has a
¦ tertiary legend, which would conflict with the
¦ on the
\¦ keys since these positions produce different characters.
You could do
`¬|, but:
- I'm not sure if that mold exists (it might); and
- you would be misrepresenting how both of those keys work on modern systems.
“Modern” in this case means “anything since the early '90s”, i.e. anything since VGA started being phased out in favor of different standalone GPUs in PCs (because
¦ was
hardcoded in VGA's default character set, and that's the last time it saw any significant use in place of
|).
I agree with adding sublegends to the UK keys, but at that point it's 5 extra keys (because of the additional
4$€) in base that honestly benefit only a very small number of people. According to some
community stats from earlier this year, people who use ISO-UK keys only make up around 2.6% of all users (about 40% of UK users use ANSI). I think you'd get more mileage out of putting any of the following keys: 2.25u Shift, 1.5u Super keys, F13, spacekeys; in base instead of those keys.
I'd like to reiterate that ISO-UK keys should be moved to the extension kit — in which case, sure, the tertiary legends should be added.
I would recommend going with
\| (and optionally
`¬¦) instead of
\¦, for purely practical reasons and for consistency. However, it has to be said that both the original DCS Red Alert set and the first GMK Red Alert run used
\¦, so if you're looking to pay homage to those sets (which it seems you are), then you may want to go with that.
Then again, this is a new set with new colors and new kitting, so I think that new, more modern/accurate legends wouldn't be bad, either
Edit: Here's a
fun video from Nostalgia Nerd that covers the topic of
| vs
¦ in detail.