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nice, just tried to find some places where can find more models, like smaller layouts etc, but couldn't anything, neither on ali, amazon and ebay. Where do peop
by desmap 6y ago
nice, just tried to find some places where can find more models, like smaller layouts etc, but couldn't anything, neither on ali, amazon and ebay. Where do people buy Japanese keyboards except in Japan?
- limeblack 6y agoTry https://www.amazon.co.jp/ https://www.amazon.co.jp/
- desmap 6y agoOk this was easy. Don't know why I haven't checked Amazon JP... Just checked and you can even order from Amazon JP and let ship to Europe. Nice, problem seems to be solved. Did you ever order something from them?
- limeblack 6y agoI have a Thinkpad Japanese keyboard from them.
- desmap 6y agoThe TrackPoint Keyboard II? Do you know what scan codes (or in general what characters) those Japanese keys next to the spacebar send when the keyboard layout is set to US?
- limeblack 6y agoNo the Lenovo ThinkPad Compact USB Keyboard with TrackPoint(I don't mind the differences so much.) Using SharpKeys this is really easy. I do have a traditional Thinkpad keyboard non Japanse though. All you do is press the key in the "Type Key" blank in SharpKeys. I have actually gotten a Japanese Thinkpad keyboard for my laptop although its for the T420 model. I would have to check my Desktop to see how this works again(on a laptop right now) if you want the actual scan codes. I will say I haven't gotten this to work on Linux just Mac and Windows unfortunately.
- desmap 6y agoHey, I got the scan codes, they're 7B and 79, check here https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/scancodes-8.html https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/scancodes-8.html (1) Where did you get the (internal) JP keyboard for your Thinkpad, Ebay or Lenovo parts sales? (2) Imagine those 5 keys on your JP keyboard... _ _ _____ _ _ |1||2||Space||4||5| ...how convenient is it for your left thumb to hit 1 and 2 and for your right thumb to hit 3 (Space), 4 and 5, each on a scale from 0 to 10? Bonus question: do you have small, medium or big hands? And how did you get the idea to use a JP keyboard? ps I use AHK, have to check out Sharpkeys!
- limeblack 6y ago1) that was slightly tricky I had to use buyee.jp 2) I have 2 of the 3 Japanese keys mapped to control/modifier and and the third mapped to space. Your picture seems to be off there aren't four modifier keys but three. The switch is quit seamless between a Mac and Windows. Medium Hands. I was analyzing keyboard layouts.
- desmap 6y agoHey me again, just checking out buyey.jp in order to order some stuff as well, so this is not just a freight-forwarder but an agent, means they do the actual buy of the product on the respective merchant sites such as Yahoo Auction etc. How was your experience, would you use them again? And I assume you did a full managed buy?! If this thread is getting restricted you can also PM me on reddit with the same username.
- limeblack 6y agoI had mixed reviews with Japanese auction site - one item arrived with good shipping, the other item did not and had freight shipping I believe. It was not a big deal to me but I would give them a low pass because there are no other options. This may be because of corvid.