No consistency in the assignment of the "caractères européens" dead key - while it's understandable that ß/ẞ gets promoted to the base layout, there is no apparent reason for adding ezh (ʒ/Ʒ) as well, and under W instead of Z.Also, no non-combining ~ (tilde) and ` (backquote) characters anywhere. The placement of the | character stinks.What is greek letter θ doing in the AltGr layer of the base layout?.Little to no consistency in the placement of the diacritic dead keys.Also, how will these combinations behave when CAPS LOCK is on? This is NOT intuitive and WILL be the source of errors. Mainly, letters will be in base/Shift pairs or AltGr/AltGr-Shift combinations for lower and upper case forms (a/a, ç/Ç, …), except a few that are assigned base/AltGr combinations (à/À, ê/Ê, …).Important currency symbols are missing, but the Austral symbol (₳) is present.Currency symbols on the AltGr layer (after already having pressed AltGr-F) will be uncomfortable to reach.The currency layer is not well designed - currency symbols should NOT depend on wether Shift is pressed - that WILL be an annoyance.The Greek layer is obviously incomplete: it is missing SIX letters (out of 24½).The more I look at this, the more things I find to dislike, EVEN if we give this thing a pass on the location of the main letters of the alphabet (A-Z) and the numbers remaining on the Shift layer: When done, clean your work space and wash your hands (you've likely been dealing with lead based solder)įor someone these are pretty basic, for others, maybe new, hope it can help someone.If the alignment is off you'll notice it by some group of keys not working When reassembling, make sure the elastic PCB pins and the regular PCB pins align well, keep pressure on while putting the screws in place.Clean the PCB with isopropyl alcohol (rub with some paper or qtip).Just pushing them out of place when the solder is melted should work (esp.Use flux, it'll help a lot with removing these tiny components, and also with their re-placement.Add some extra solder to the components to ease with the removal.If it's not working, don't keep heat on it for too long, take a step back and re-evaluate.Get your solder iron hot (enough) I used 350C but YMMV.Some general tips if anyone would like to attempt this: Just poured myself a glass of tequila to celebrate. And perhaps even try it out in the evening, if it works it's a really simple fix (but requires soldering) and you could basically swap your keyboard layout between US/German/Italian/Spanish/French, even install a switch if you're fancy. It would indicate to me that the keys are _not_ physically remapped in any way and instead the keyboard is only reporting to the Dreamcast: "hey, I'm French yo, thanks!". If in fact the layout changes for you based on games, etc. Oh, big thanks for chiming in! Sad to hear about the constant keyboard layout changes but this makes me even more confident that the jumpers I found could be responsible for changing the layout. Other than that i can say at last it still works better than a pad to write and at least it do the job online. Lots of times is even a pain to look for symbols because they change from eu to jap to usa and i can never remember where are they (and they are often needed in italian) The keyboard is a really hit and miss, on european games i have the azerty layout, on usa ones i have the qwerty one, and this is very tedious, more than that, the azerty layout is a real pain (guess french can say the same about qwerty xD ). 247 wrote:I have bought a french keyboard too, seller didn't know it was french or so he said back then.
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