Editing Cherry article numbers (section)

==Format== 
[[Cherry]] article numbers ''usually'' follow one of these forms:

*'''G8'''''X'''''-'''''YYYY''
*'''G8'''''X'''''-'''''YYYY ZZZ'' ['''/'''''RR'']
*'''G8'''''X'''''-'''''YYYYZZZZZ''['''-'''''N''] ['''/'''''RR'']
*'''G85-'''''YYYYZZ''
*'''JK'''-''PPPPZZ''['''-'''''N'']'''/'''''RR''
*'''JM'''-''PPPP''

JK and JM represent consumer keyboards and mice respectively, with a four-digit part number ''PPPP''. The rest of the codes begin with "G8", where the ''X'' digit signifies the [[#Series|series]], typically including the switch family.

The ''YYYY'' part is the [[#Model number|model number]], consisting of four or five digits.

The ''Z'' part is a letter code that could include information about such things as the type of [[#Keycaps|keycap material]], [[#Layout|layout]], [[#Connector and switch variation|connector]] and for G80 keyboards also the [[#Connector and switch variation|switch variation]].

Older Cherry boards tend to have a 3 letter code. Five-letter codes have been spotted on boards from 1994 onwards, but keyboards with three-letter codes were produced up to early 1996.
Article numbers beginning with '''G85''' have only a two-letter [[#Layout|layout code]].
Some older, long deprecated models do not have any letter code at all.

After the letter code, there could be a hyphen and a digit, ''-N''. Often, "-0" is on keyboards that are light grey (Ger:"Hellgrau") and "-2" on keyboards that are black.

Last, there could also be a space, a slash and a two-digit numeric code. The meaning of this is unknown. There has been speculation that it would be some kind of revision number.