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Subject: Re: [THS:20816] Little survey: which keyboard is the "hacker" keyboard?
From: Torsten Wagner <torsten.wag...@gmail.com>
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Hi Kalin,

I can't live with the shorten space bar on Japanese keyboards.
Whenever I try to type on them, I often hit the muhenkan, henkan, and
the Hiragana/Katakana switch key.
Annoying if you are used to touch type and write rather fast.

> For the last 13 years I completely switched to JP109 layout though, I
> like the extra keys and I often write Japanese anyway.
> I use a custom PITA keyboard map to have Bulgarian, English and
> Japanese (Scim/Anthy) working...

I don't know if you are an Emacs user. But Emacs has its own input
methods for different languages (like an IME). E.g. "M-x
set-intput-method german-postfix" allows me to use an English layout
and type
ue to get an =FC
ae to get an =E4
and so on.

There are three different input methods for Bulgarian.
You might like to try them out. I set-up many of my editing task (like
writing this email) to open up in a Emacs session and automatically
copy the final text later into the webmailer textbox (plugins for
Firefox and Chrome exists).

As for Scim/Anthy/ibus etc. That might be nice part for a THS lecture!
I learned that many people in Japan are curious about Linux but don't
see how to replace the omipresent and crucial important  Windows IME
to type Japanese.

Totti