Remapping the @ key on a Japanese Keyboard

[eric klein]

Hi, got a new macbook air m1 here with a Japanese keyboard. I'd like to essentially swap it with the 7 key on my number row, the end goal being to get ' to the @ key as when typing in English shift + 7 is a weird reach to make.

However I can't (arrrgh that reach! haha) find the @ key as a option to remap inside of Karabiner. Maybe I'm not looking for the right name or just flat out missing it.

I have set my keyboard properly in Karabiner under the country code and everything works as it's supposed to otherwise.

Any tips? Thanks!

[eric klein]

Btw, I'd like to point out that this specific issue is really difficult to google for, being the @ key it brings up loads of unrelated things hahaha.

[Patrick Thieszen]

I had no idea this could be so tricky, but could you remap shift+2 to act as shift+7? I’ll keep looking for a bit but that might work.

[eric klein]

Oh, sorry I wasn't super clear. On a Japanese keyboard the @ symbol has a dedicated key. Its to the right of the P key, oddly. Shift + 2 is the quotation mark, haha. It's a real mess and I'm used to everything but that key for the ' drives me nuts. My issue is I can't find anything in Karabiner that indicates the existence of the @ key at all.

[Patrick Thieszen]

I hope this isn’t a stupid question, but what does the event viewer show for that key?

[eric klein]

That was a wonderful question because I had no idea the event viewer existed.

It seems to see it called the open_bracket and I have now swapped the keys! Thank you so much!

[Patrick Thieszen]

Happy to help!