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Japanese to American Keyboard Layout?

Hi there. I use a Japanese MacBook Air, and although its pretty convenient, I don't really like how the keyboard is laid out.


Ex) On the Japanese keyboard, in order to type a quotation mark, you need to type shift + 2, and for the apostrophe, you need type shift + 7, even though on American MacBooks, both of them are on one button.


It's very frustrating on having to remember this type of keyboard since I learned how to type on the American keyboard...


Is there anyway I could change the setting of my keyboard from the Japanese to the American keyboard?


Thanks.




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Posted on Jan 6, 2020 7:08 PM

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Jan 7, 2020 4:49 AM in response to yukao1201

yukao1201 wrote:
Ex) On the Japanese keyboard, in order to type a quotation mark, you need to type shift + 2, and for the apostrophe, you need type shift + 7, even though on American MacBooks, both of them are on one button.

Is there anyway I could change the setting of my keyboard from the Japanese to the American keyboard?


You can create a custom keyboard layout that changes such things with the app Ukelele.


http://software.sil.org/ukelele/


Make sure when you are editing that you set the keyboard type to JIS

Japanese to American Keyboard Layout?

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