[EU] Keyboard Layout Options US ANSI

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Hi there,

I couldn’t find any other thread about this topic. I want to order a Framework DIY edition in Germany but with an US-ANSI keyboard layout. The only options I can choose from are “International English”, French, German and British ones.

There are four pictures of the keyboard layouts. I can map those to DE, FR and GB. So the last one should be “International English”. But it’s a picture of an US-ANSI layout. So now I’m pretty confused. Can I be sure I’ll get what’s on the picture? (Not an ISO layout, a real US-ANSI one?)

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tl;dr; Can I be sure I get what I can see on the pictures? A true ANSI-US layout if I order “English International”. The large shift-keys and the additional button on top of the “enter” key are very important to me.

Kind regards,
Simon

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It looks the 4th picture of yours has “|” key button on the top of the “enter”. So, it looks ANSI-US.

The both clear keyboards might be better to find the difference.

I am not sure what is the difference between “ANSI-US” and “English International”. On below both pictures, it looks the only difference is right alt key’s text.

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Thanks for your help. It does look like that indeed! That would be totally fine by me. I guess I can pre-order it then. I also contacted support but I guess I can pre-order now and cancel the order if they won’t confirm that.

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Just if somebody else stumbles upon this thread. I just got clarification from support.

“English International” actually has two differences compared to US-ANSI.

  • the right alt key has “alt-gr” as label
  • there’s an Euro symbol on the 5-key (this is missing on the picture @junaruga posted, it’s only visible on the whole keyboard assembly)

Everything else is exactly the same as US-ANSI according to support. That’s fine by me so I’ll stick to the “English International” layout :slight_smile:

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Interesting. Thanks for checking. I wonder how much the English International layout is popular in Europe. Living in Czech Republic, my working laptop Thinkpad X1 Carbon provided by my company is also ANSI-US layout, not English International layout.

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I know that English International is actually the default in the Netherlands.

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Yeah, but usually English International has this big enter button and the key which is above enter moved to it’s side. Also the shift keys are much smaller. That would be a deal breaker for me. I own one of these English International keyboards and I hate this change especially for programming.

Especially for programming US-ANSI is way more comfortable for me.

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