I seem to be having a problem with my wireless JIS keyboard since upgrading to Leopard on my PowerBook G4 with a built-in US keyboard . I can't tell if this is a bug in the OS, hardware or Bluetooth firmware problem.
The problem is the JIS wireless keyboard is mapped correctly when I do English input. For instance the @ key next to the p key is correctly mapped but when I change to Japanese romaji input the keyboard reverts to a US keyboard mapping. For example the @ key becomes the [ key like on the built-in US keyboard. This JIS keyboard not being mapped for Japanese input is really strange and honestly hard to deal with when typing Japanese. FYI I can still input Japanese romaji but again it's like using a built-in US keyboard.
When I look at the keyboard viewer the first keyboard that shows is the built-in keyboard then touching any key on the wireless JIS keyboard the keyboard viewer changes to the JIS keyboard. On top it shows "Keyboard Viewer" (U.S.) though.
I also removed /Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist suggested by some people but no improvements as well. It's gone I hope I didn't do more irreparable damage!
I also tried this as well on suggestions from the Apple Support Discussions site.
open /System/Library/CoreServices/KeyboardSetupAssistant.app/Contents/MacOS/KeyboardSetupAssistant
or
sudo open /System/Library/CoreServices/KeyboardSetupAssistant.app/Contents/MacOS/KeyboardSetupAssistant
To solve this problem any help will greatly appreciated! I just hope that I don't have to buy a new JIS keyboard. Those nice sleek thin ones are really nice though.
Thanks
Jonathan
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.5.1) 1.67 GHz PowerPC G4 w/2GB DDR2 SDRAM
The problem is the JIS wireless keyboard is mapped correctly when I do English input. For instance the @ key next to the p key is correctly mapped but when I change to Japanese romaji input the keyboard reverts to a US keyboard mapping. For example the @ key becomes the [ key like on the built-in US keyboard. This JIS keyboard not being mapped for Japanese input is really strange and honestly hard to deal with when typing Japanese. FYI I can still input Japanese romaji but again it's like using a built-in US keyboard.
When I look at the keyboard viewer the first keyboard that shows is the built-in keyboard then touching any key on the wireless JIS keyboard the keyboard viewer changes to the JIS keyboard. On top it shows "Keyboard Viewer" (U.S.) though.
I also removed /Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist suggested by some people but no improvements as well. It's gone I hope I didn't do more irreparable damage!
I also tried this as well on suggestions from the Apple Support Discussions site.
open /System/Library/CoreServices/KeyboardSetupAssistant.app/Contents/MacOS/KeyboardSetupAssistant
or
sudo open /System/Library/CoreServices/KeyboardSetupAssistant.app/Contents/MacOS/KeyboardSetupAssistant
To solve this problem any help will greatly appreciated! I just hope that I don't have to buy a new JIS keyboard. Those nice sleek thin ones are really nice though.
Thanks
Jonathan
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.5.1) 1.67 GHz PowerPC G4 w/2GB DDR2 SDRAM