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I am currently using a Japanese Apple keyboard (Model A1048) on Windows 8.1. I have two issues with this setup. The first issue is that they keyboard is detected as a US layout keyboard, which causes issues with many of the symbol keys. The previous issue can be partly remedied by editing the registry, as detailed here. But that still leaves me with another problem (the focus of this post): the conversion and kana keys don’t work.
grandta13
Posted 2015-01-31T03:35:44.857
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after you instal the language pack, activate the keyboard layout
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This varies from computer to computer, and some OS vendors have striven to provide a consistent user interface regardless of the type of keyboard being used. On non-Japanese keyboards, option (right alt )- or control- key sequences can perform all of the tasks mentioned
Alberto
Posted 2015-01-31T03:35:44.857
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not sure if is the right answer ( never had a Japanese keyboard ), but try this :
Alberto
Posted 2015-01-31T03:35:44.857
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I've tried installing the Japanese language pack, but it has no effect. I doubt Apple has released drivers for Windows for their keyboards (but if they have one I would appreciate a link). The third party key remapping could work, but I haven't found one that allows be to map to the kana or conversion keys, and even if I could map the keys directly, I'm not sure what values Windows expects. – grandta13 – 2015-02-01T14:27:49.870
Activating the layout hasn't been an issue; it's getting all the extra keys to be recognised. I would imaging that with most Japanese keyboards this wouldn't be an issue, but it seems that the Apple version has some of the keys mapped differently than is standard. – grandta13 – 2015-02-08T05:02:28.173
use a third party software to add the extra keys on your keyboard, just google it, this should be solved days ago – Alberto – 2015-02-09T08:36:10.417