I want to get my SO a keyboard and unfortunately she uses ISO keyboards exclusively. ANSI is not an option.

The only keyboard I found were the keychron ones, looking for more options :/ Something like the Nuphy Air V2 would be amazing.

Anything out there, preferably TKL or smaller? Wired is totally fine.

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    How come? (Just asking out of pure curiosity; I don’t have a follow-up tip or anything.)

    I grew up with ISO (Swedish layout) but I now have an ANSI us layout because 1) I am a programmer by trade, and 2) I can touch type. So it’s much more convenient for me. The Enter key being a little bit wider on ANSI is helpful IMO.

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      I’m on the same boat as you, pretty much. I grew up with ISO and moved to ANSI on my 20s. If you own an Happy Hacking Keyboard I’ll consider you my long lost brother!

      My SO is not a techie person and doesn’t particularly benefit from ANSI. She types a lot in portuguese, our native language, and the default ANSI layout has some really bad key placements. The ~ key in particular is in a pretty bad spot considering ã is used very frequently in our language. No point in getting used to a layout that is inferior for her workflow.

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        If you own an Happy Hacking Keyboard I’ll consider you my long lost brother!

        Unfortunately I don’t, but we can be brothers regardless 😅

        The ~ key in particular is in a pretty bad spot considering ã is used very frequently in our language. No point in getting used to a layout that is inferior for her workflow.

        Ah, I see! What if we told her she could have some tap-dancing customization where she double taps the a key and gets the ã? Even better than standard! 😁

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        3 days ago

        Depending on how willing you are to set things up for her, you might want to take a second look at either the Voyager, or any other QMK-compatible keyboard. It’s incredibly flexible firmware that lets you define fully custom layouts. If she’s doing a lot of typing, it might be worth the effort to make (and adjust to) a custom layout with quick access to her most used modifiers and symbols.

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          3 days ago

          She stated multiple times that she has no interest in swapping layouts. ISO works for her and she wants to keep using it.