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

[Karl-Max Wagner <karlmax@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

Daah ! Don't get worked up about keyboard layouts here. What
should I say ? I regularly use German, US, and JP layouts. I
also have a number of HX-20's and PX-8's. There are two CP/M
machines and a Commodore CBM 8032 around. I also use them from
time to time. If you believe their layout is much alike, you're
living in cloud-cuckoo land ! I never found it much trouble to
get along with that mess - although I cannot say that a
universal standard replacing that chaos would be unwelcome.....

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