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When ordering a new Macbook Pro, there is a new option for the physical keyboard -
What is the "Chinese- Pinyin" keyboard? How is it different than the English - International keyboard? Does this have anything to do with the Touch Bar?
MacBook Pro with Retina display
3xOG24 wrote:
Have you used this keyboard - do you know if the chinese/english toggle - then removes the "caps lock" option. In other words - are you able to "caps lock" using this keyboard.
thanks
I have not used the keyboard, but my assumption is that this is the normal caps lock key. If you check the box in system prefs/keyboard/input sources for “use caps lock to switch” between latin and non-latin keyboards, then it will do that for Chinese and other non-latin scripts. But if you do not check this box, then caps lock will work as it normally does.
Hi,
I looked at all the 13" and 15" models and none of them list the Chinese keyboard as an option. Where are you seeing this?
Are you looking in the China Apple store? Hard to imagine what this could be other than US or US International.
Apple Store online for Hong Kong
http://www.apple.com/hk/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro
http://www.apple.com/hk/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro?product=MLH42ZP/A&step=config#
I found this picture on the page for the China store, which shows a keyboard with some different markings than those found on the standard US English on keys `, 4, 6, period, comma, [, ], \, and caps lock. I think these may reflect differences in the way the US keyboard in fact works when the Pinyin Simplified IM is active.
Thank you. Those extra markings in particular on the period and comma keys are particular to Chinese, and the caps lock key shows a possible toggle between Chinese and English.
Using Caps Lock to switch between non-Latin and Latin keyboard layouts is a new feature of Sierra. I have checked and the additional printing on the keys of this new Chinese keyboard seems to accurately reflect the way the Pinyin Simplified IM works in Sierra when that option is active. For example, normal typing gives you 【 】「 」on the bracket keys, and hitting caps lock returns to US and gives you [ ]{ }.
I'm sure this must be the Chinese-Pinyin option you discovered.
Have any " photo " about this " real " keyboard !
ccuccu wrote:
Have any " photo " about this " real " keyboard !
A photo was already posted in this discussion on Oct 29. Can you not see it?
Have you used this keyboard - do you know if the chinese/english toggle - then removes the "caps lock" option. In other words - are you able to "caps lock" using this keyboard.
thanks
Ok - thanks for the info.
Macbook Pro 2016 new keyboard option
