This had been a long-time annoyance of mine, as typing certain symbols is difficult when you don’t have a U.S. keyboard layout.
I made a small piece of software which lists all your keyboard layouts and lets you modify the registry key accordingly with a GUI. The position of symbols unfortunately is still in the Japanese layout during hiragana/katakana mode, but this should obviate having two keyboard layouts for some people who switch to and from one other language frequently.
A .reg backup is also created which you can double-click to restore.
Please feel free to report any issues on the GitHub page.
Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/z0oP2dn.png
Release:
https://github.com/mistyhands/ChaoJpLayoutFixer/
As described on the GitHub page, a small percentage of antivirus software may flag this due to registry modification. The software is of course not malicious; it should be easy to verify and build by yourself with Visual Studio if you are so inclined.
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> as typing certain symbols is difficult when you don’t have a U.S. keyboard layout.
Seriously, it’s a pain. Not only are the special characters completely elsewhere, but also I constantly type „z“ when I want „y“ and vice versa.
Nice, great work!
Interesting. One of my pet peeves (mostly writing in English, but prefer using AZERTY keyboard as I use notably FR and DE as well as Japanese) is that everything related to Japanese language use of websites, but in particular the IME seems stuck in the pre-Unicode period.
I cannot find any explanation why for example, full romaji-based used of the IME cannot be done with the default keyboard layout under MS Windows. It’s just unbelievable and would probably take a developer at MS five minutes to fix if they bothered to take a look.
Dude you are awesome!
You an actual legend, thank you so much! This will be incredibly useful as someone who frequently switches between two keyboards and finds himself having to switch keyboards midway through a sentence, this is a genuine life changer.