Coolest custom mechanical keyboards

Re:Coolest custom mechanical keyboards by soneil on Monday December 28, 2020 @09:03PM (#25565845)

I think that's unique to the mac UK layout? # is usually on shift-3, so to accommodate £ on the same, they moved # to alt-3. Yuck.

For me - There's another layout named "ABC - Extended", which reverses the two - so £ is on alt-3, but # is back where it belongs. It has a very different compose set behind the alt modifier though, so might be jarring if you frequently use them.

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Re:Coolest custom mechanical keyboards by oneeyedpigeon on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @10:07AM (#25570370)

Yup, that must be what it is — frustrating because I need a £ symbol probably less than 1 percent as often as I need a #. I'm more-or-less used to it but every now and then I'll get the wrong modifier and do something like switch to tab #3 instead...

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Re:Coolest custom mechanical keyboards by Symbiote on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @11:35AM (#25571523)

That's unfortunate (although for the majority of people in Britain, £ is obviously much more common).

The British PC keyboard layout has # as a first-level key (next to Enter), and some Windows + Mac users manage to set the Mac to use this layout.

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