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September 5th, 2021 22:00

Buy an Inspiron in Italy (dell.it) but with german keyboard layout

In a few words: I live in South Tyrol which is in the north of Italy. Here is my dilemma:

- My native language is german (which is the language of most South Tyroleans)

- In dell.it I cannot buy a german keyboard

- In dell.at or dell.de I can choose the german kb layout but CANNOT buy it because dell.de and .at DO NOT accept italian credit cards or Paypal accounts.

Furthermore I have NO CHANCE to contact Dell by telephone or email to resolve this issue. I dont want any HP or Lenovo Laptop but it seems Dell forces me to go there...

September 12th, 2021 22:00

During the setup process, did you add a second keyboard layout? If you did not add another keyboard layout, you can do this using the following method.

  1. Go to the Settings app.
  2. Select Time & Language > Language.
  3. Assume you have English, Deutsch, and Italiano as your languages. We know that German uses the QWERTZ layout, while Italian uses the QWERTY layout. Let’s focus on the German keyboard.
    (Dell computers support German (Italy) as a language, but it’s hidden in the OS. To add this special language, select Add a Language and enter de-IT in the search box to get German (Italy).)
  4. Can you try changing the input language to German for the time being? Click on the three letter input language in the taskbar, and select German.
  5. Enable the full touch keyboard layout to see the buttons for that layout so that you can map the buttons on the German virtual keyboard to the Italian physical keyboard.
    (If the touch keyboard button is not displayed, right click on the taskbar and select Show Touch Keyboard Button.)
  6. Once you have enabled the touch keyboard, perform the steps in the image below to activate the full touch keyboard layout.
    Enabling the full touch keyboard layoutEnabling the full touch keyboard layout



  7. You should have the full touch keyboard layout like the one below. In your case, you should take the time to map the keys from the German software keyboard to the Italian hardware keyboard.
    (This keyboard layout below is English (UK). See the two screenshots after this one for the keyboard layouts of German and Italian.)
    Full touch keyboard layoutFull touch keyboard layout

Here are the keyboard layouts for German and Italian, in case you need them. German and Italian have the same number of keys.

 

GERMAN

German keyboard layout (QWERTZ)German keyboard layout (QWERTZ)

 

ITALIAN

Italian keyboard layoutItalian keyboard layout

Hope this helps!

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