6     Keyboards

The DIGITAL 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.

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

Figure 6-2: LK401-AJ Keyboard Layout

Figure 6-3: LK401-JJ Keyboard Layout

Figure 6-4: LK401-BJ Keyboard Layout

Figure 6-5: LK421-AJ Keyboard Layout

Figure 6-6: LK421-JJ Keyboard Layout

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.

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 DIGITAL UNIX V4.0C or earlier, which assume ANSI layout keyboards by default.

On systems (excluding DEC3000, DEC4000, DEC7000, DEC10000 series) running DIGITAL 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.

set kbd_hardware_type 411
set language 50

3. Initialize console firmware:
   
   init
4. 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

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