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    Asus F8Sa/F8Sv keyboard

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by orainsear, Nov 29, 2007.

  1. orainsear

    orainsear Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm in the U.K. and considering importing an F8 from the U.S. I'd like to change the keyboard to a U.K. layout and was wondering if the F8 series uses the same keyboard as the A8 and W3 series (part number K020662I1 for the U.S. keyboard).
     
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  2. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    Is UK different from US layout? And if it is, is anything different besides a few symbols (maybe pound)?

    Otherwise I wouldn't worry about it.
     
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    orainsear Notebook Enthusiast

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    The differences between a U.K. and U.S. keyboard are minimal to be honest:

    Enter key is larger on U.K.
    Pipe/backslash key is left of the Z button on U.K.
    British pound (£) sign on number 3 key on U.K.
    Quotation mark (") and at (@) are interchanged
    Hash (#)/Tilde (~) key to the left of the enter key on U.K.

    With vista is is possible to set up to use the U.S. keyboard layout but use English U.K. language settings?
     
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    JCMS Notebook Prophet

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    yes, just set the keyboard to English (UK) in the language panel.

    I have a US keyboard on my C90S but I use the French (Canada) keyboard mode. The only things I'm missing are the french version of the " " and the degree symbol, but I've always used English (Canada) or Candian Multilingual keyboards and those don't have it either. (on the french candian keyboards there is another key with those 2 tings between the Z and shift key).

    Other than that, the canadian keyboards all have a big enter key so it was a bit strange at first
     
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    F8 uses the same keyboard as the A8. They look identical, anyways, and considering that the F8 is just a reskinned A8, it only makes sense that they are using the same part.
     
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    orainsear Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks - I thought as much.

    With regards to my query about the keyboard settings I don't think I explained my question properly; what I'm interested in is if it's possible to use a U.S. keyboard as the input device, with the input settings in the O.S. also set for the U.S. keyboard, but to have the regional settings and language etc as U.K. English.
     
    orainsear, Nov 30, 2007
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