RE: tlug: Recommend Japanese KB?? (was: Re: US student moving to Tokyo)

["Xiaohua YAN" <yan@example.com>]

>
>Hi, I'm a japanese currently living in the US for some reason:-)
>I, as a japanese, won't recommend japanese keyboard.
>
> I can't just accept such a keyboard whose asterisk (*)
> is not on Shift-8. (I can't even remember where it was
> on a jp-kb)
>
>Seriously, these "features" sucks me!!
>Whenever possible, I try to avoid jp-keyboards.
>
>I really like to hear from others what they think about this.
>



Hi, I am a Chinese now working in Japan, I do not understand why
jp-keynoard has such a layout for some keys, such as *, @, ;, : 
[] {} |.

I never find any advantage of such a layout.
Perhaps this is similar to NEC PC-9800?

And in our company, no Japanese staff use the kana-keys to 
input Japanese characters. All of them use ROMAN-ji.

I switch from computer to computer, so I must confirm what type of 
keyboard I am using.

Does any one know what is the merit layout of jp-kb

Yan @ Yokohama



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