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6     Keyboards

The Compaq Tru64 UNIX operating system software supports the Japanese keyboard types shown in Table 6-1.

Table 6-1: Japanese Keyboard Types

Keyboard

Layout

ConvKey

KanaLED

Description

LK201-AJ

ANSI

X

0

Japanese LK201 keyboard

LK401-AJ


/LK40W-AJ

ANSI

X

X

Japanese LK401 keyboard

LK401-BJ

ANSI

0

0

Japanese LK401 keyboard

LK401-JJ

JIS

0

0

Japanese LK401 keyboard

LK411-AJ
/LK41W-AJ

ANSI

0

0

Japanese LK411 keyboard

LK411-JJ
/LK41W-JJ

JIS

0

0

Japanese LK421 keyboard

LK421-AJ

JIS

X

X

Japanese LK421 keyboard

LK421-JJ

JIS

0

0

Japanese LK421 keyboard

LK97W-AJ

JIS

0

X

Japanese PC 109 keyboard

Several Japanese keyboards have special keys for Japanese input methods. (See the ConvKey column in Table 6-1.) LK401W-AJ, LK41W-AJ, and LK41W-JJ are equivalent to KJ401-AJ, LK411-AJ, and LK41W-JJ respectively, except color.


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6.1   Keyboard Layout

The illustrations in this chapter show the keyboard layouts for the Japanese input methods. Online copies of these pictures are available at the specified locations. These pictures are in Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) and you can display them on screen using Netscape, or include them into a Microsoft Word document.

Figure 6-1: LK201-AJ Keyboard Layout

LK201-AJ Keyboard Layout

Required Keymap:

japanese_lk201aj

Location of file:

/japandoc/japan14.gif

Figure 6-2: LK401-AJ Keyboard Layout

LK401-AJ Keyboard Layout

Required Keymap:

japanese_lk401aj

Location of file:

/japandoc/japan15.gif

Figure 6-3: LK401-JJ Keyboard Layout

LK401-JJ Keyboard Layout

Required Keymap:

japanese_lk401jj

Location of file:

/japandoc/japan16.gif

Figure 6-4: LK401-BJ Keyboard Layout

LK401-BJ Keyboard Layout

Required Keymap:

japanese_lk401bj

Location of file:

/japandoc/japan17.gif

Figure 6-5: LK421-AJ Keyboard Layout

LK421-AJ Keyboard Layout

Required Keymap:

japanese_lk421aj

Location of file:

/japandoc/japan18.gif

Figure 6-6: LK421-JJ Keyboard Layout

LK421-JJ Keyboard Layout

Required Keymap:

japanese_lk421jj

Location of file:

/japandoc/japan19.gif


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6.2   Keyboard Indicator

If you are using XDM, the keyboard indicator (kb_indicator) is automatically activated by the session manager and controls the compose lamp of the Japanese keyboards. For the keyboards which do not have a kana lamp (see KanaLED column in Table 6-1), add the following definition of the keyboard indicator to the Automatic Startup menu of the session manager and restart the session:

"/usr/bin/X11/kb_indicator -map"

Kana status will be displayed in the keyboard indicator window. A button in the keyboard indicator window controls the compose mode like the kana key on the keyboard.

If you are using CDE, you can manually execute the above command or add it to your personal profile.


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6.3   JIS Keyboard

You may encounter difficulties with JIS layout keyboards (see Layout column in Table 6-1) before running a session manager with the appropriate keymap. These problems occur on systems running Compaq Tru64 UNIX V4.0C or earlier, which assume ANSI layout keyboards by default.

On systems (excluding DEC3000, DEC4000, DEC7000, DEC10000 series) running Compaq Tru64 UNIX 4.0D or later, you can set the keyboard type at console firmware. The steps are as follows:

  1. Update the console firmware to the latest version.
  2. Set the kbd_hardware_type language variable to appropriate values, as shown in Table 6-2.
  3. set kbd_hardware_type 411
    set language 50

  4. Initialize console firmware:

    init
  5. Confirm that the values are set correctly:

    show
    kbd_hardware_type LKL411
    language 50
    language_name Japanese (JIS)

Table 6-2: Variable Values for JIS Keyboard Layout

Keyboard

kbd_hardware_type

Language

LK411-AJ/LK41W-AJ

LK411

52

LK411-JJ/LK41W-JJ

LK411

50

PCXAJ-AA

PCXAL

50

LK97W-AJ

PCXAL

50

Note: LK20*, LK40* and LK42* are not listed because they are used for DEC3000, DEC4000, DEC7000, DEC10000 series.


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