Upside down keys on RGB US English (2nd Gen) keyboard?

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I was very excited to see that I can finally get an RGB keyboard without a Windows key. But then I looked more closely at the photos in the marketplace listing and… why are all the keys with shifted characters upside down?! (e.g. the /? key has the ? on the bottom and the / on the top)

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I thought this was some kind of weird stylistic choice, but the non-RGB “US English (2nd Gen)” and “US English - Copilot (2nd Gen)” keyboards have normal photos.

I also thought they might have just inserted some keycaps upside down in the unit they took a photo of, but the ? is right-side up, it’s just on the bottom of the key instead of the top.

Please tell me this is just some kind of weird pre-production fluke and the actual keyboards are going to have the symbols the right way around.

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This same layout glitch happened during the launch of the FW16.

The layout was eventually fixed, as noted in the linked post.

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