Apple Hardware Keyboard Language Customization Options

Apple produces over 2 dozen hardware keyboards with keys printed for specific languages, a list of which is found below.

Apple provides information on how to identify which keyboard you have.  It may be possible to do this even when you cannot see the printing on the keys via the part number of the product.

Those marked with an asterisk * are available from the US online store.  Other countries' online stores normally have a different and more limited selection.  Some keyboards may only be available in the countries where their language is used.  Apple stores do not ship outside their own country.

Apple keyboards have one of three standard types, ANSI, JIS, and ISO, which differ regarding the number and shape of keys. The keyboards for US English, Chinese, Korean, and Thai are ANSI. Japanese is JIS.  All the rest are ISO.

Latin letters printed on Apple keyboards all follow the QWERTY layout, except for French/Belgian (which follow AZERTY), German/Austrian, Swiss, Hungarian, Czech, and Slovak (which follow QWERTZ), and Turkish F (follows its own unique layout).

Keyboards for non-Latin scripts also always have Latin letters printed on the keys.

Arabic*

British/Irish*

Chinese Pinyin*

Chinese Zhuyin*

Croatian/Slovenian

Czech

Danish*

Dutch*

English (US)*

English (International)

French/Belgian*

French Canadian*

German/Austrian*

Greek

Hebrew*

Hungarian

Icelandic

Italian*

Japanese*

Korean*

Norwegian

Portuguese*

Romanian

Russian*

Slovak

Spanish (Spain)*

Spanish (Latin American)*

Swedish/Finnish

Swiss*

Thai

Turkish Q

Turkish F

Ukrainian*