major English keyboard layouts, both are QWERTY
I live in Europe but want a US layout keyboard, and these are not common here. I heard the Dutch prefer US layout, and found G14's for sale at alternate.nl with "International English" keyboard and am wondering how this differs from US layout.
If it's just the lettering on the keycaps (adding a euro symbol or whatever) then cool. But if the keys are physically different - like the Enter key is vertical or the left shift is shortened with an extra key stuck next to it (like UK keyboards do), then I might import one from the US instead.
Has anyone bought a Zephyrus with an International English keyboard and can confirm the layout, maybe post a picture? I've done some googling and am not sure I can trust the images I see. Very often they're accompanied by a disclaimer that the image may not match the actual product..
Many thanks!
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That depends on what you consider international, let's go through a common output of localeclt and see how the keyboards differ:
$ localectl list-keymaps | egrep '(us|uk)'
amiga-us
atari-uk-falcon
atari-us
br-latin1-us
cz-us-qwertz
dvorak-uk
is-latin1-us
mac-uk
mac-us
sunt5-cz-us
sunt5-uk
sunt5-us-cz
sunt6-uk
uk
us
us-acentos
OK, for a start we can drop out the ones that have cz, since it is for Czech keyboards. Originally Czech typewriters used QWERTZ as the top row, this is the same as in most German dominated countries (part of Germany or of Austro-Hungary). In these places keyboards start with the QWERTZ row.
is and br are for Iceland and Brazil, both places have more than one official keyboard layout: One following US convention latin1 and another adding language specific letters.
We have:
amiga-us
atari-uk-falcon
atari-us
dvorak-uk
mac-uk
mac-us
sunt5-uk
sunt6-uk
uk
us
us-acentos
amiga was used by the Amiga computers, a keyboard that had the arrows in a cross. atari is another keyboard that is machine specific (atari machines).
acentos was a layout that tried to add latin1 letters for other languages into the US layout. It failed to do so because of ISO8859 (which divided parts of the letters that were meant to be composed there).
mac is the layout specific to Mac machines in which the command key plays a very important role.
sunt are musical keyboards with several programmable keys.
dvorak is a layout that is argued (for some 20 years) to allow for faster typing speed. The layout is very different from any other keyboard layout.
We still have:
uk
us
Because of the use of ASCII as the base of communications between computers the us keyboard is the base for keyboard layouts. The uk keyboard is based on the us keyboards. The differences are: in the uk keyboard @ and # are next to the return key, whilst the " is above the 2 and the pound sign £ above the 3.
Therefore your best choice is us, since it is the original layout from which almost all others are derived.
I am writing this from an Arch Linux which I installed by loading the keys as:
loadkeys us
The map file for the layout is at:
/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.map.gz
(inside X11 you use Xorg's maps with setxkbmap us)
Short answer
us-acentos
Gnome
Region & Language > Input sources > Add an input source
Then, select English (US, intl., with dead keys)
Hi, so after a while I figured out.
Go to Add a Language and select interlingue.
Then click it, go to Options
You get one default layotu like QWERTY - something.
Remove the default one (click it, then press remove)
And then "Add a keyboard"
Unitet States-International should appear on that list.
Then of course, select the layour interlingue as you keyboard layout on the previous screen
Yes, English (United States) is the language that was pre-selected already. I'm trying to add an ADDITIONAL language: English (International). This language is not available as an option in the list of preferred languages to select from. I do not understand why not.
The most important differences are the size and position of the Enter/Return, and a few differences in the layout. The ~ key and the \ key have an entirely different position on both keyboards. Also, the US keyboard has no € label (although it can be entered: Alt+Shift+2).
The International keyboard (‘keyboard type’ = ISO) also has one more key than the US keyboard (‘keyboard type’ = ANSI). Some Apple keyboard layouts use that key for essential characters, and this can cause problems for users with only the US keyboard.
Below is a high-quality visual comparison.
US QWERTY Apple keyboard:
EN International Apple keyboard:
Latest version from the official Apple website:
QWERTY - International & QWERTY - US
The link below is to the overview of all keyboard layouts that Apple provides. Might be useful.
Link: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201794