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Which keyboard is this?
Thread poster: Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
Netherlands
Member (2006)
German to Dutch
Feb 12

I got my hands on a Mid-2010 white Unibody MacBook with a very peculiar keyboard layout:

keyboard


Two keys on the second row have been replaced (3 and ~) and they might have different labels than the original keys.

I have compared this keyboard with all the images on sites where you can identify your keyboard layout, but I cannot find this keyboard.

Please help.

[Edited at 2024-02-12 10:54 GMT]
 
Jo Macdonald
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Spain
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Italian to English
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Italian perhaps? Feb 12

With letters à, è, é, ù, ú.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_orthograph... See more
With letters à, è, é, ù, ú.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_orthography

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://10000informatica.it/1367/10118-tastiera-italiana-apple-macbook-unibody-13-a1342-late-2009-mid-2010-mc516ll-a-mc207ll-a-mc207-mc516-emc2350-emc2395.jpg&tbnid=WyAe5SM73Xq6hM&vet=12ahUKEwjSoIWG1KWEAxVxVKQEHQoqAEIQMygCegUIARDAAQ..i&imgrefurl=https://10000informatica.it/tastiere-notebook-apple/2551-10118-tastiera-italiana-apple-macbook-unibody-13-a1342-late-2009-mid-2010-mc516ll-a-mc207ll-a-mc207-mc516-emc2350-emc2395.html&docid=3QxaDQHVDxGIxM&w=1600&h=1200&itg=1&q=tastiera%20italian%20%202010%20%20Unibody%20MacBook%20&ved=2ahUKEwjSoIWG1KWEAxVxVKQEHQoqAEIQMygCegUIARDAAQ ▲ Collapse
 
Björn Vrooman
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Hello Hans Feb 12

Hans Lenting wrote:

I got my hands on a Mid-2010 white Unibody MacBook with a very peculiar keyboard layout:

Please help.

[Edited at 2024-02-12 10:54 GMT]


Thought it was French, but I guess not. Maybe it's one of the other layouts shown here:
https://keyshorts.com/blogs/blog/37615873-how-to-identify-macbook-keyboard-localization

HTH.


[Bearbeitet am 2024-02-12 14:37 GMT]
 
Denis Fesik
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Isn't it European Portuguese? Feb 12

I have installed a Portuguese layout to be able to stick any accent to any vowel, and the picture looks familiar to me
 
Zea_Mays
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Italy
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. Feb 12

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[Bearbeitet am 2024-02-12 12:34 GMT]
 
Zea_Mays
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Italy
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most similar is French AZERTY (just in QWERTY version) Feb 12

See here, AZERTY layout: https://keyshorts.com/p... See more
See here, AZERTY layout: https://keyshorts.com/products/french-azerty-keyboard-stickers-fully-customizable-for-mac-or-pc
Pic: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0810/3669/files/french-french-mac-kblayout-bilingual-2021.png ▲ Collapse


expressisverbis
 
expressisverbis
expressisverbis
Portugal
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English to Portuguese
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Portuguese or Spanish Feb 12

Now that you indicate the diacritic (accent)... I would say it's a keyboard for typing in Portuguese or Spanish because of the tilde "~".
Or maybe it's a new keyboard that allows you to type in various languages (Romance languages?) with the Latin alphabet. Is it?

[Edited at 2024-02-12 14:05 GMT]

Angie Garbarino
 
Lorenzo Meloni
Lorenzo Meloni  Identity Verified
Italy
Local time: 11:58
Member (2022)
English to Italian
I'm curious too Feb 12

Now I'm curious too! The layout of all number and symbol keys seems BE/FR, but those should be AZERTY instead of QWERTY.
 
Angie Garbarino
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Member (2003)
French to Italian
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Italian no, Feb 13

Jo Macdonald wrote:

With letters à, è, é, ù, ú.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_orthography

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://10000informatica.it/1367/10118-tastiera-italiana-apple-macbook-unibody-13-a1342-late-2009-mid-2010-mc516ll-a-mc207ll-a-mc207-mc516-emc2350-emc2395.jpg&tbnid=WyAe5SM73Xq6hM&vet=12ahUKEwjSoIWG1KWEAxVxVKQEHQoqAEIQMygCegUIARDAAQ..i&imgrefurl=https://10000informatica.it/tastiere-notebook-apple/2551-10118-tastiera-italiana-apple-macbook-unibody-13-a1342-late-2009-mid-2010-mc516ll-a-mc207ll-a-mc207-mc516-emc2350-emc2395.html&docid=3QxaDQHVDxGIxM&w=1600&h=1200&itg=1&q=tastiera%20italian%20%202010%20%20Unibody%20MacBook%20&ved=2ahUKEwjSoIWG1KWEAxVxVKQEHQoqAEIQMygCegUIARDAAQ


There is not such an accent for the u (ú) in Italian, only this one (ù) also no tilde in Italian and no accent over the u in French, so not French.

Could be a new keyboard allowing to type in various Romance languages. Perhaps.
 
MollyRose
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United States
Local time: 04:58
English to Spanish
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Not Spanish Feb 13

It has keys with diacritics over certain vowels, but in Spanish every vowel needs to have the capability of being accented (á, é, í, ó, ú). It doesn't have ¿ or ¡ to go at the beginning of questions or exclamations.

[Edited at 2024-02-13 19:07 GMT]
 


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