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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Choker on Fri, 03 May 2013, 19:59:06

Title: Question for those who have used the Japanese layout keyboard
Post by: Choker on Fri, 03 May 2013, 19:59:06

So I'm thinking about buying a keyboard from Japan, which has the Japanese layout (see link), and the keys are very disoriented to me.
http://blog-imgs-29-origin.fc2.com/j/u/n/juniorski/SANY0018.jpg (http://blog-imgs-29-origin.fc2.com/j/u/n/juniorski/SANY0018.jpg)
For instance the double quote mark is shift+2, and the + and = is not on the same key, and the & is not on 6 instead of 7, and etc. etc.
So, what's gonna happen when I set my system regional & language setting to English? What will happen if I press shift+2?

Thank you very much!!!

(Btw that keyboard is RF 108uh-s (sa010s), which is the only silent 45g RF that exists)

Title: Re: Question for those who have used the Japanese layout keyboard
Post by: 002 on Fri, 03 May 2013, 20:23:29

Shift + 2 will still give you @ unless you add a Japanese keyboard in your regional options.

Title: Re: Question for those who have used the Japanese layout keyboard
Post by: Choker on Fri, 03 May 2013, 20:36:32

hello 002 ! Thank you very much! So do you mean no matter what it reads on the keycap, I'll still go with what I am used to hit when I type? Like when I press shift+; , it'd be : , not + ?
Do you have this type of keyboards? Is it a pain to use it?
Thanks!

Title: Re: Question for those who have used the Japanese layout keyboard
Post by: 002 on Fri, 03 May 2013, 21:15:25

Quote from: Choker on Fri, 03 May 2013, 20:36:32

hello 002 ! Thank you very much! So do you mean no matter what it reads on the keycap, I'll still go with what I am used to hit when I type? Like when I press shift+; , it'd be : , not + ?
Do you have this type of keyboards? Is it a pain to use it?
Thanks!

Yes, every Japanese keyboard I've used (all Topre) will be recognised by Windows as a 101/102 key keyboard and Shift + 2 gives me the @ symbol. I'm actually typing on a Japanese keyboard right now.
Shift plus semicolon still gives you colon, not the plus character that's printed on Japanese keyboards.
It's not really a pain to use it. If you use backslash a lot, that takes a bit of getting used to because the key is the one beside the Enter key (printed as }])

It's actually a known issue to Microsoft that some 106-key keyboards do not identify themselves properly to Windows.
You can read more about it here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927824

Title: Re: Question for those who have used the Japanese layout keyboard
Post by: Choker on Fri, 03 May 2013, 21:40:51

Thanks! Looks it's not a big issue, and it's solvable~ I think I'm gonna go ahead to order it!