> Hmmm... Although I can't find such a jumper on my (Sanyo Wavy MSX2+)
> keyboard I guess it's very well possible, since there are more
> characters in the Japanese character set than are available through the
> KANA key (I think). I guess it's some pre-Kanji ROM way of entering
> Japanese text, supported by some Japanese text editors. And then the
> Kanji ROM was 'invented', and people started using CTRL-SPACE in Kanji
> mode and the bit wasn't nessecary anymore, so it disappeared out of the
> machines.
>
> Just a wild speculation...
JIS is not only kanji, but also hiragana, I suppose.
Grtjs, Manuel
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