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taking advantage of a Japanese built-in laptop keyboard

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TomahawkLabs:
This is the level of hyper fixation (8 years of work) to get a more optimal (for you) layout that I live for. Thanks for the post.

jacobolus:
To be clear: I haven't made any significant changes after the first couple months. I just got used to this and it still keeps working 7 years later, so I am reporting back. The actual "work" involved here was (1) picking "Japanese" in the order page for the laptop store website and (2) spending a couple hours fiddling with keyboard config tools.

Taking care of 2 small kids stopped most of my soldering and physical keyboard modeling projects over that time frame, but we recently moved and (fingers crossed for construction to wrap up) once we can make some basement workshop space I might get back into it a bit.

But for a laptop keyboard easily available for purchase, Japanese keyboards continue to be my pick for best choice if you are willing to make your own layout. And for people interested in more radical keyboard rearrangements, the physical layout offers a lot of possibilities (see my speculative ideas from years ago, above).

For what it's worth, I am using Karabiner-Elements for the remapping, but I think everything I'm doing would also be completely possible with a standard system keyboard layout.

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