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LoganJFisher t1_iy1uu21 wrote

Reply to comment by Competitive_Ice_189 in My keyboard is Odin, my keycaps are Norse. Valhalla seems appropriate. by phero1190

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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