I’m not sure, but this may be of interest to you:
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Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Andreas Stötzner.
Am 11.01.2013 um 09:40 schrieb Stephan Stiller:
> All,
>
> Occasionally I run into the problem that I would like to use a keyboard
> layout for a 102/105-key keyboard (as used in Canada, the UK, Germany, and
> many other locales) or a 106/109-key keyboard (as used in (?)only Japan) on a
> 101/104-key keyboard (from the US but also used elsewhere).
>
> (For 102/105-key keyboards, the extra key is the one between left-shift and
> (US) "Z", and one key is row-shifted. Describing the Japanese keyboard is a
> little trickier. I forgot whether the respective scancode sets are strict
> supersets of each other. And please feel free to correct me on the
> terminology or fill in what's missing.)
>
> So, say I want to type French with the Canadian French keybaord layout (this
> is the one that lets you directly type the most letters among those used for
> the French language) or German with the standard German keyboard layout.
> Annoyingly I won't be able to enter "<" and ">" (in the German case) if I use
> a US keyboard, as it will have only 101/104 keys. Is there an easiest way
> (probably some software someone wrote) to emulate the missing keys?
>
> Another example is that the JIS layout is basically unusable with a
> non-106/109 keyboard. This is not surprising, but it's limiting for
> international folks. (If I get a Japanese keyboard, things work under a
> non-Japanese Windows with some customization, but US Macs lacked a
> straightforward way of letting me use a Japanese keyboard on (US) Mac OS X,
> last time I tried. Different issue.)
>
> To anybody with experience with this: What's the easiest way to circumvent
> this problem? Please note that I don't consider "switching keyboard layouts
> every time" or "defining my own keyboard layout" convenient possibilities
> (unless the latter is a customization for which there's software that lets me
> do this in a couple of minutes).
>
> Stephan
>
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