International keyboard layouts in 2017

This is a list of all the international Apple Magic Keyboards I could find, from U.S. to Japanese.

If you use any of these keyboards, please let me know what I missed or misinterpreted by leaving a note, or talking to me on Twitter!

A video with all the 25 keyboards

Specific keyboards, ordered by how different they are from the U.S. one

• The standard American English layout.

• Symbols instead of Shift, Caps Lock, Delete, Tab, and Enter labels.
• Extra key with ± and §.
• Tilde key and backslash key in different places, Enter in a different shape.

• Extra € label.

• Extra £ label.

• Many new letters around Enter.
• Interesting quotation key in the upper-left corner. What does it do?
• A lot of punctuation is different. Braces and curly brackets are missing.

• Even more keys with letters.
• @ on Q.

• Many keys with triple labels.

• Similar keys as above, but in different locations.

• Misprinted @. (Possibly in the mock-up, not on the actual keyboard?)

• Exact same glyphs as above, but in different locations.

• Similar to above, somewhat differently designed.

• Many triple-labeled keys.
• Backslash key in the upper left corner.
• € on E. Why?

• Extra letter keys on the left and the right
• Slash, blackslash, and pipe in the upper left
• Guillemets (« and ») on Z and X, and a few other keys with tertiary punctuation

• QWERTZ instead of QWERTY.
• @ on L. Why?
• No key for uppercase eszett.

• Interesting side-by-side keys.
• @ on G. Why?
• ! not on 1.

• Try to find a zero!!!
• A nice block of letters close to Enter.

• AZERTY instead of QWERTY.
• All digits are shifted!
• M in the middle instead of bottom row.
• Further reading: France wants to fix the terrible AZERTY keyboard

• All digits are shifted!
• Most accented letters are under digits.
• € on R and eszett on S.

• The only keyboard that’s not QWERTY or similar.
• 32 instead of 26 letters.
• Separated parentheses.
• Further reading: What I learned about languages just by looking at a Turkish typewriter

• Cyrillic coexisting with Roman alphabet.
• Some keys have four labels.
• A key with №
• Ruble (currency) sign ₽ on P.

• Korean alphabet (Hangul) coexisting with Roman alphabet — sometimes two letters per key.
• Otherwise, identical to the U.S. keyboard, including American labels and Enter shape.

• George Wyatt tells me: “The Taiwanese keyboard has 2 different ways to type Chinese. Top right symbols are Zhuyin where you type the pronunciation, bottom right is Cangjie where you type words based on their shape. I think most Taiwanese just use the Zhuyin.”

• Thai alphabet coexisting with Roman, two on most keys.
• Some punctuation signs on letter keys.
• American labels and Enter shape.

• Arabic script coexisting with Roman alphabet.
• Arabic labels alongside English labels.
• Bidirectional labels on Tab, Enter, and Backspace.
• Second, mirrored question mark. (Originally, I complained that there was no mirrored exclamation mark, and someone pointed out that it would look exactly the same.)
• Interesting representation of accents on Q, W, E, R keys.

• The entire layout is shifted, resulting in big Enter, big 1, small Esc, big Eject. (Big Enter is apparently crucial since Japanese keyboard entry uses it to select characters.)
• Hiragana and Roman alphabets coexisting on keys, sometimes up to three a key.
• Smaller space surrounded by two extra keys to switch between Hiragana and Roman.
• Control in a place of Caps Lock; Caps Lock in a place of Fn; Fn replaces the right Alt.

That’s it! Except…

Bonus: 17 iPad Smart Keyboard layouts

Enjoy!

Thanks to Xah Lee and Paris Marx for their help on this article.