They can definitely make a difference, but it's just one piece out of many things that impact the sound and feel of a keyboard. Simply sticking a bit of rubber in between the plate and the case may not have much impact at all if there's still no wiggle room for the plate.

That's one type of blocker, and it's less common in 65% layouts. It's not about having "one less key" so much as following an older IBM-inspired keyboard layout. Vintage-esque fashion, if you will.

For 65s, though, the blockers are usually either immediately to the left of the arrows or at the very top-right.

65% blockers don't generally remove the Windows key. They're either badge-style blockers in the top right of the board, or they're near the arrows.

Occasionally you'll see a WKL-style blocker on the left, but that's not as common as what the meme would be pointing to.

Also, with QMK, it's really easy to put the Windows key somewhere else.

There are far less pricey models available. This model ended up expensive because it was such a low MOQ of 12 units.

There’s one more beige available to reserve as well, but it’s not back from the factory yet.

21kb is based in the US.

Wuque has been making products for the Western market for a while now, including the Ikki 68 keyboard series. They have people dedicated to maintaining English-language social media.

KPRepublic is a vendor for a variety of brands. They are based in China, but they do speak English as well. They have been selling products worldwide for years at this point.

And the audience isn’t solely vendors anyway. Educating fellow customers is one way to bring about change, as it increases the likelihood that the correction is actually mentioned and reaches the people who are currently advertising the product incorrectly.

Even the Chinese clone manufacturers, as you refer to, watch English language social media. That’s part of how they determine which keysets are popular enough to be worth ripping off.

Interesting. Same model number, different actual board. Yeah, that's probably a good start.

Personally, I'd be on the lookout for a board offering QMK / VIA firmware, but that's probably a good first option.

Could you provide some more information on this? The listings for those models that I was able to find do not include hotswap.

>Redragon K552

https://www.amazon.com/Redragon-K552-Mechanical-Keyboard-Equivalent/dp/B016MAK38U?th=1

I don't see hotswap listed as a feature there. Same deal for CiY X77.

It's a bit difficult to find something that's both hotswap and ISO layout, but hotswap is one of the easiest ways to make sure that a single faulty switch doesn't ruin a board. (I actually do have a lightly used hotswap ISO board for sale, but I think it's out of your budget.)

The Redragon and CiY boards you listed can't really be modded very much. You won't be able to change the switches on those without a lot of disassembly and desoldering.

I would either (1) go as cheap as possible, accepting that you may have to replace the whole board later or (2) save up a higher budget for something that meets your needs better.

I think they primarily use ANSI, but all ANSI-based layouts work just fine on ISO boards.

In terms of keyboard layouts, though, the Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Faroese, Greenlandic, and Estonian layouts are all very closely related.

Icelandic is kind of an oddball mix of Danish layout, US layout, and a few keys that don't show up anywhere else.

That’s interesting. I much prefer just holding AltGr-Y for Ü.

If only it were so simple.

21kb Irish Classic Retro Beige

>Featuring Irish sublegends

Wuque Studio GR Irish

Colorway that's not Irish-themed, just the same layout.

KPRepublic green Irish layout

>Font: Irish Languange+Standard US Font

If you’re using Windows or Linux you should have access to this under your language settings. Mac has its own version.

Taken out of context you might think that, but it’s one of a list of alpha sets named primarily by their languages.

Then you have multiple other sites explicitly calling it the Irish layout or “Irish Language” in the product description.

That’s already part of US International. There are dead keys on ‘ ` ^ ~ and possibly a couple others.

The layout is actually US International, which is a multilingual layout that provides access to characters used in Western & Northern European languages. Spanish, French, German, Danish, etc.

It can handle Irish too, but the actual Irish layout is a different thing.

Yup. I was able to persuade Syrup to make that change. I’m hoping the other vendors follow suit.

In this case, that’s because the sublegends are part of a layout that assumes the primary legends are US, not UK/Irish.

I guess I could see the use case for people who swap between UK/Irish and US International, but I’m not sure that’s all that frequent.

What might work better would be to use the full US International legends with the specific UK/Irish primary legends front-printed on keys that differ.

Partially correct for a different reason. US International is the most widely used layout in the Netherlands.

“Dutch” is partially correct because this layout is the predominant layout used in the Netherlands.

Because US International is the most widely used keyboard layout in the Netherlands.

Not really a Dutch language layout. More of a Dutch people layout. Thus partially correct.

It looks odd, but it's really very useful to type with if you have to use those characters on a semi-regular basis.

...that being the problem :-P