Re: [tlug] US keyboards

["Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon" <ronfaxon@example.com>]

Alain Hoang wrote:

> After two years of trying to 'adjust' to a Japanese keyboard I still have to admit... they still suck.  Having the single quote character shift-7 is certainly some sort of punishment for getting the @ and : without a shift key imo. What might not be helping me is that I have
> a US layout keyboard on the main machine I do my coding in the lab however all the other machines are Japanese layout so when I have to move to a different machine it's like finding that I've been driving on the wrong side of the road... in the middle of rush hour.
>    But at least it's not as torturous as trying to type on the Zaurus keyboard.  Sure it's not bad for its size but I still consider it awful and am waiting for the Next Great UI Leap (off the cliff) for tiny devices.
>  
What I did to get around that is to just set Japanese keyboards (while I 
was using them anyway!) to US keyboard settings and then I went on 
merrily touch typing with the same old layout I was used to on US 
keyboards. That said, I recently have to use some mutant-W boxes with 
Japanese keyboards and layout (too many machines and for too a short a 
period to time to make keyboard layout changes) and the biggest irritant 
is the shifted parenthesis - which causes errors going in both 
directions. Those years of Shift-7 for apostrophes and Shift-2 for 
quotation marks paid off in that I can get back into that arrangement 
without much trouble....

Lyle