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Tapping into the hive mind as it is late at night and my Google-fu is weak.

I need an AZERTY keyboard for a continental customer. It must be compact - I can live without a numeric keypad on the right, for example. No trackball or touchpad(*) - they want a mouse. The keyboard is to sit on a tray attached to the side of a machine. The max space available on the tray is 40cm * 16cm.

For a semi-industrial environment but I don't need to spec an "industrial" keyboard - none of this rubber nonsense. Just something decent quality.

My lazy Googling / Amazon is giving me a few distant links, and lots of stuff for laptops and Blackberries. I am searching "Compact AZERTY keyboard", am I missing a search term? "Wired"? "PC"? "Desktop"?

Any recommendations welcome

Thanks
oh we need it ASAP as well I doubt many high street shops sell such things though...

am I best off on amazon.fr, amazon.de etc?

edit...
here is one, seems expensive!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/KBT-Pure-Pro-Mechanical-Backlight-/dp/B00A2LLDI0/re...

In reply to Blue Straggler:
Lie! Tell amazon or who ever that you're in France.

Find a Qwerty keyboard that fits the bill. Note the manufacturer and part number and look for the French version.

Buy a Qwerty, pull the keys off and put them in the right place. They're all the same buttons under the key caps.

Edit: I'm serious about swapping the key caps - it's the PC that maps the buttons to the letters - try it, change your locale to a french region.

In reply to Blue Straggler:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dcomputers&...

In reply to Removed User:

Nice try but not compact. I don't want those numeric keypads, they make them too big. So add "compact" to search terms, and you get a load of Blackberry stuff and not so many wired USB keyboards. Thanks

In reply to Blue Straggler:

I think you mean they make them regular sized and your size requirements are too small, but I suppose that's irrelevant.

Why can't you use a bluetooth board instead of wired?

In reply to Removed User:

This almost looks like you are trying to create a spat within a thread about keyboards! Only almost though


The PC is inside a machine that is at least SUPPOSED to be EMC protected. Anything wireless would make a mockery of this.

In reply to Blue Straggler:
Sorry about that, missed the smiley off the end that was meant to lighten the comment! It just amused me at the time

This might help by way of an apology:-

http://tinyurl.com/p6u7rmt (had to use tinyurl because you can't link directly to ebay on this site)

In reply to Blue Straggler:

maybe try searching for 'clavier AZERTY' - plenty for sale here (Paris)

Thanks all. Now that it is not midnight after a crazy long working day, I have sorted this (well, I have delegated the task. To the customer )

Cheers


edit - removed the "compact" requirement, there is no merit in it

In reply to Removed User:

No worries, I was a little cranky last night ! Ta