The TRON Kana layout was developed by Prof.
While its technical design was superb for professional typists, JIS X6004 was abandoned as a JIS standard in 1999 due to its unpopularity in the market. JIS X6004 was a Japanese industrial standard Kana layout established in 1986 to amend various issues in the current, old JIS standard Kana layout. (Left Shift and right Shift are not differentiated.)Ī dedicated key is used for the Dakuten ゛. Shift key is prefixed, a different kana is typed. That is, press it, release it, then the next key press will be effected. The kana are arranged according to frequency and ease of the key-press position. M-System input system and keyboard was designed by Dr Masasuke Morita at NEC in 1983.
Kana with dakuten are typed by pressing the thumb-shift of the other hand. Here is a summary of the different layouts: QWERTY JIS Romaji input.
And there are many ways to arrange the kana on keyboard too. There are many ways to arrange the English letters on keyboard.
Japanese Input Method Japanese Keyboard Layouts Intro to Japanese Writing System and Input Method This would make it possible to keep your languages list synchronized between computers with different hardware layouts and not force a specific layout that doesn't match the attached keyboard.By Xah Lee. What's really missing, is the ability to set an "automatic" layout for each language, saying "for this language, match the layout of the physical keyboard instead of a software-specified layout".
Windows organizes keyboards as part of each language you want to type in, this makes sense if you want for example to type English using the QWERTY US layout but use the AZERTY layout to type in French on the same keyboard. It is ok to allow these to sync, since some people do want to sync their keyboard layouts even if the physical layout doesn't match. They sync as part of the "Language preferences", you can enable sync but avoid the languages and keyboard layouts by just disabling that option (in Settings > Accounts > Sync your settings).