If you’re bilingual, like me, and you work on your PC, Mac, or laptop with more than one language, you’re probably frustrated with having a single-language keyboard. I mean, you can easily download another language to your computer, but if you don’t know where the letters of the new language reside on your keyboard, you’re pretty much lost.
This feeling of loss is especially true if your language is Arabic, Russian, Hebrew, or Chinese, which has characters that are wildly different from English.
Until recently, the popular solution to this problem would have been to use keyboard language stickers, be it Arabic, Russian or Hebrew labels, in whatever language you are using. The basics were to buy letter stickers, place each one on the correct key (so that when you press each key your computer would display the correct letter), and get to work. The main problems with these stickers are these:
- Keyboard stickers tend to fall apart after a while, leaving a mess on the keyboard.
- It is difficult to place these stickers directly on the keyboard.
- You must replace all these language stickers from time to time
- Makes your keyboard look ugly and unprofessional.
- In general, keyboard language stickers have multiple disadvantages.
Recently, a new solution emerged: keyboard language engraving. Keyboard engraving is a process in which letters from an additional language are engraved on the keyboard in a manner similar to how the original English letters were engraved at the computer factory. Keyboard engraving has some main advantages:
- Keyboard engraving is a permanent solution that requires no work on your part
- The letters never disappear
- It looks like the letters came with the original keyboard.
- The best thing about keyboard engraving is that it is a quick and fast process. It is much faster to engrave your keyboard than to put stickers on yourself
The main thing I like about my engraved keyboard is that it looks totally professional. I didn’t spend all this money on a cool laptop just to ruin how it looks with keyboard stickers. They even ask me admiring questions about my keyboard, which is nice too. I highly recommend keyboard engraving for anyone who works with 2 or more languages.