Need guidance acquiring a keyboard with Ger/Rus layout

YueGung · 20 Dec 2011, 22:33

Hi,
I would appreciate your help with some questions I have.
I recently happen to know that a mechanical keyboard is what I’m looking for.
The problem is, I would like it to have both Latin and Cyrillic letters, preferably with German and Russian layout. From what I’ve read my first concern is not the board it self, but the key caps are.
So where do I get such key caps?
To with keyboard will they fit?
And how much will I have to pay for such a device?
For the mechanical part, I think I would prefer tactile over linear switches and that it would be a pity to waste the opportunity to have more than 2-key-rollover.
Does a Russian keyboard forum exist? I couldn’t find it.

webwit · 21 Dec 2011, 00:59

A Russian keyboard forum doesn't exist. Only more generic hardware forums. You can find some Latin/Cyrillic boards with search here such as these, not sure if I've seen the specific combination of German/Russian. The Cherry fanboys here can answer that question better.

Findecanor · 21 Dec 2011, 01:28

I have seen pictures of rubber dome keyboards from Cherry and others with German and Russian legends, but I don't know of any G80 (MX).

sixty · 21 Dec 2011, 18:09

I have seen this board three times on eBay Germany. The first two went unnoticed for a little less than 10 Euros each. The third went up for over 300 Euros.

Meet the G81-3209SAR. The only keyboard with fully dye sublimated cyrillic + german legends. It will be nearly impossible to find one of these, but I shall post anyway for reference.

As far as I am aware, similar to the G80-3000HAV, the board originally came with replacement keycaps and a keycap puller to set it up for a different cyrillic layout, as well as the british layout.

mintberryminuscrunch · 21 Dec 2011, 18:36

awesome caps
.. but that keypuller hurts my eyes

ripster · 21 Dec 2011, 19:32

In Soviet Russia sublimation dies you.

Gilgam · 22 Dec 2011, 12:52

mintberryminuscrunch wrote:awesome caps
.. but that keypuller hurts my eyes

I'vbe got one of them in raptor K1 box. No so bad. Fast key pull.

mintberryminuscrunch · 22 Dec 2011, 13:51

yeah my issue with it is, that it "looks" like it scratches the keys

YueGung · 23 Dec 2011, 02:50

Meet the G81-3209SAR. The only keyboard with fully dye sublimated cyrillic + german legends.

There is only one?
To be honest, I didnt expected it to be that difficult to get a proper keyboard.

You can find some Latin/Cyrillic boards with search here such as these,

I tried to get this one.
Seems I’m not the only one looking for Cyrillic lettering in Germany.
Wouldn’t it be easy for cherry to sell keycaps with all kinds of lettering and language-combinations?

But enough whining, I was surprised to find SteelSeries 6Gv2 and Zowie celeritas with Latin and Cyrillic letters.
I Don't know whether that shop in Moskau ships anywhere though.
The Zowie seems to be the better option for me anyway (brown cherrys). I hope this increased repeat-response-thing doesn't have any “side-effects”.

btw. thanks for the information you people keep available here and on geekhack.

sixty · 23 Dec 2011, 16:41

If you are not looking for a retro board with high quality keycaps, there are alternatives to the ancient Cherry ones. Cherry still makes keyboards with a similar layout, bu the keys will be laser printed only. You can probably fire a mail to keybo.de and they should be able to help you out. They also do ship international.

ripster · 23 Dec 2011, 16:46

btw. thanks for the information you people keep available here and on geekhack.

On the behalf of Geekhack let me say you are welcome.