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Any UK-Layout keycaps identical to 8BitDo's C64 Keycaps? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml
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When I first brought it year ago as it the first Mechanical keyboard I own, I only just notice it's a US Layout when I tried to use it which I assume because I got it on Amazon UK, it would be in UK Layout. Note to myself, do few minutes of research before buying it online again.

I saw on 8BitDo's subreddit of someone contracting customer service if they sell UK-layout keycaps which they said no. I did tried look one identical to it but it both different colour and also in US-Layout.

Before tells me "Just use US Layout", I tried it and still feels unnatural to me. I really don't want my keyboard picking up some dust but if there's isn't any keycap that both looks identical and in UK, I'm considering maybe getting Keychron Keyboard at some point.

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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I'm confused. The layout of the hardware switches is fundamentally different between ANSI (the US one) and ISO (all the european ones).

You see a normal UK keyboard has an extra switch near left shift key, and the double sized enter, etc.

This also means that the two keyboards need different stabilizers.

How do you expect a set of caps to transform a US keyboard into a UK one?

Switching between UK and any other Euro layout is easy peasy, but US? Nope.

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