2006-07-23 11:09:39 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Thanks for the good answers. I thought I'd get lots of silly ones. I was being serious.
2006-07-23 11:24:42 · update #1
The Japanese Keyboard looks similar to a normal qwerty keyboard except it has a few extra buttons and a smaller spacebar. There are some Japanese keyboards with the chararactors printed onto the keys but most Japanese use English letters (Romanji) to type the words and the computer automatically changes the text into either Hirogana or Katakana as it is typed. I am English and am studying Japanese language but I have a standard UK keyboard with only English characters on it but I can use it to type in the Japanese words. You can add the Japanese character set in XP if you go to the Control panel and choose the Keyboard option and add a Japanese keyboard (you don't need to physically plug in a second keyboard), you may also need to choose the advanced option to display the Asian character support. If you have added the keyboard correctly, you will have a new icon on your taskbar which displays EN but you can switch to the Japanese input by clicking this button and choosing JP. If you don't have XP then you will have to go to search the Microsoft website and download the patch program to install it. Hope this helps
2006-07-23 11:29:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
it look just like our standard keyboard + the small Japanese symbol on most key to make ez finding the key to when typing in Japanese letter.
u can use the standard keyboard to type in Japanese if u have install Japanese font on ur pc
2006-07-23 11:19:55 · answer #2 · answered by sodan 3ll 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Exactly the same as english but with barbed wire characters instead of the alphabet as we know it. Unless you have a bi-lingual ketyboard which contains both english and japanese characters.
2006-07-23 11:14:19 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought all keyboards looked the same. I've seen some here in the U.K. that say made in Japan and they don't look any different to any others
2006-07-23 11:15:14 · answer #4 · answered by dragonnookie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They got all the western characters "large" but small they got all the japanese characters. Theres a button next to numbe rone that switches between jap or western input.
2006-07-23 11:21:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.datacal.com/products/japanese-black-usb-keyboards_l.htm
2006-07-23 11:12:44 · answer #6 · answered by rsist34 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
like someone sneezed on it while they were eating alphabet soup (or noodles)
2006-07-24 03:28:46 · answer #7 · answered by sdfsgsdhyj 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋