Submitted by phero1190 t3_z6186a in MechanicalKeyboards
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.
Competitive_Ice_189 t1_iy1sgiz wrote
There’s lot of weebs and neckbeards in the community pretending to be Japanese that’s why
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.
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 :)
LoganJFisher t1_iy3j3nt wrote
I'm not confusing anything.
Remembering an entire alphabet layer without a visual guide is just very difficult.
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.
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.
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.
LoganJFisher t1_iy1ep5p wrote
Yeah, this is the only one I've found with both, and it's... yeah.
jokerstyle00 t1_iy1f4nz wrote
Yeeeeeeeeah that's a yikes, chief.
LoganJFisher t1_iy1v5z5 wrote
The variant with black Latin characters is at least a bit better, but still not exactly pretty.
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.
Churchy t1_iy2brx5 wrote
Just in case this isn't the set you found ugly as sin... https://21kb.com/products/21kb-desko-greek-classic-retro-beige-keycap-set?variant=43503365882075
LoganJFisher t1_iy2byaa wrote
It's not, and that does look a bit better, but it's also not the complete Greek alphabet. :/
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