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LoganJFisher t1_iy02yb9 wrote

I don't understand why bilingual keyboards are almost always English + Japanese, and the few that aren't are usually something weird like English + Norse.

I just want an English + Greek keyboard that doesn't look ugly as sin. There's only one such keycap set I've found out there, and it's hideous.

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Competitive_Ice_189 t1_iy1sgiz wrote

There’s lot of weebs and neckbeards in the community pretending to be Japanese that’s why

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LoganJFisher t1_iy1uu21 wrote

I enjoy anime as much as the next neckbeard here, but personally I only want symbols on my keyboard that I can actually use. If someone knows Japanese, then power to them, but it's definitely over-represented.

Greek characters would be super useful to me because I use them quite a lot in my work (physics), so making a layer dedicated to them (and a layer dedicated to the TeX codes for them) would be rather nice.

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cosmin_c t1_iy2mzyi wrote

You are confusing keycaps with layouts and layers. You can always buy a CRP set with keycaps with greek legends but that won’t make your keyboard actually output them.

At the same time if your keyboard uses QMK you can always use a greek layout on a layer.

Or use a greek layout from your OS settings.

Of course you can do all three but it isn’t the manufacturers fault for not providing for your specific needs, apparently greek is more niche than hiragana :)

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LoganJFisher t1_iy3j3nt wrote

I'm not confusing anything.

Remembering an entire alphabet layer without a visual guide is just very difficult.

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cosmin_c t1_iy3m4ll wrote

As somebody who also employs the greek alphabet you can always bind alpha to the A key, beta to the B key, Gamma to the G key and so on.

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LoganJFisher t1_iy3ni8k wrote

Sure, but not every Greek letter has an easy analogue and a few of their names start with the same letter. Ultimately, it would just be best to have bilingual keycaps to create a guide.

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cosmin_c t1_iy54xfa wrote

Just try to use this as a template for the greek layer and buy the keycaps when they're available (these are GB only usually but sometimes are in stock, also look at r/mm).

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jokerstyle00 t1_iy1cx2w wrote

Kat Atlantis has a Greek keycaps set, but I've yet to find a decent looking cap set that has both.

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LoganJFisher t1_iybqu7o wrote

Just discovered Aegean Sea.

They look great, but unfortunately lack the lowercase Greek letters. As someone who uses the Greek alphabet as variables rather than for writing, while I know the uppercase and lowercase versions of each letter, having the lowercase symbols shown would be helpful. Oh well.

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