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by power natto

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I am running multiple W98 OSs (Japanese and English) on a partitioned disk. My problem is that my Japanese 106-key keyboard is recogised by the English Win98 and WINNTwkstn as US layout which affects about a dozen keys (numerical and punctuation)I am on a network on which Japanese Win98 used. I have not yet found the way to download the driver from the Japanese OS.

Any advice, fixes, codes and so on much appreciated!

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by jimmy

If you install windwos 98 and it can't find the type of keybaord you are using it will select US as default i presume.
First of all why don't you just go to keyobard options in control panel and add new keyboard. Then select Japanese as the new keyboard.
Note: If the option is not there for Japanese then you will have to do the following go into control panel and click add/remove programs then select multi-Language support. Clik to add the multi-language option this will now allow you to choose japanese as the keyboard of your choice when you go back to add new keyboard.

hope this helps

by shanghai sam

Yes English W98 installs US keyb as default even though the hardware is Japanese. Window Knowledge Base articles Q321607 and Q319571 addresses a similar issue but is not specific to my problem.

On Eng Win98, Japanese is not available as a language option in Multi-Language support; nor do Japanese keyboard options appear in the Add-Hardware lists nor in Keyboard Language lists. I have downloaded Japanese language support and IME for input of Japanese from western character sets but neither relates to the keyb issue.

English Win-NTwkstn does offer Japanese language options in Regional Settings and keyboard language choice but the keyb layout remains resolutely US.

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