🚀 go-pugleaf

Just a suggestion...  Instead of going into C.P. and possibly messing up
things, get a compatible i.e. English keyboard.  May save real headaches if
you can get one in your location (I assume you are in Japan.).

Simon

"David McNerney" <davberk99@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:7a2eef0c.0303240717.29d509a8@posting.google.com...
> My apologies for posting a question that's been seen in both these
> groups before, but the messages I've found in searches haven't helped
> me solve my problem, so I thought I'd try asking again.
>
> I've installed the English language edition of Windows XP Pro on a
> laptop that has a Japanese keyboard (an IBM X30 purchased in Tokyo). I
> installed all the relevant drivers available on the IBM website.
>
> The problem is: even if I choose a Japanese keyboard for my input
> language(s) in the "Regional and Language Options" control panel, XP
> still uses the US layout both in US English and Japanese input
> lanaguages (IME direct mode). So when I hit the colon key on the
> Japanese keyboard, I get a single quote, and in the Japanese input
> language mode the special keys for typing Japanese don't work.
>
> One post said to go to the keyboard control panel and change the
> driver to a 106 or 109 key Japanese keyboard. Sounds great, but there
> are two issues:
>
> 1. I can't figure out how to do that. I don't see any option for
> changing the driver. Various attempts to uninstall and reinstall, or
> upgrade the driver haven't done anything. I checked on the IBM and
> Microsoft websites and couldn't find any such Japanese keyboard
> drivers.
>
> 2. In the Japanese XP Pro that came preinstalled on the laptop, an
> English 101 key keyboard driver is actually the only one installed,
> and yet the Japanese keyboard is correctly mapped for both my US
> English and Japanese input languages. The only difference between the
> two is that when I click "driver details" in the preinstalled Japanese
> OS, the keyboard driver shows two additional files that aren't present
> in the English install: kbd101.dll and kbdjapan.dll. I have no idea
> how to make my English setup the same as the Japanese preinstalled
> one.
>
> Any help that anyone could offer on this would be very much
> appreciated!
>
> thanks
>
> Dave