Re: unpleasant characters

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Ian Barwick <barwick@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> A long-time lurker writes:
>
> 2009/12/14 Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler@timbira.com>:
>> Dave Page escreveu:
>>> Do you know if this will have any unpleasant side-effects in Japan or
>>> other regions with what we would consider to be unusual keyboard
>>> layouts?
>>>
>>>
>> As I said, I don't know if we'll have problems with it; but if they map Fx key
>> to some character, they have trouble using our shortcuts anyway. Could Hiroshi
>> or someone else confirm this?
>
> The function keys on Japanese keyboards (I am typing on one right now)
> are not used for any special Japanese characters. They can be used when
> inputting Japanese to modify the input string, but any keypresses should be
> caught by the IME and not passed through to the underlying application.
> When inputting SQL, the keyboard would effectively be the same as a US
> keyboard. The same applies, AFAIK, to other East Asian languages.
>
> I also happen to have a Thai keyboard knocking around and the function
> keys are not used for anything special there either.

Thanks for the info Ian, that's good to know.


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