Japanese Keyboard (Windows CE 5.0)

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09/14/2012

The Japanese keyboard layout is more complex than other keyboard layouts because of the language complexities. Japanese keyboards, which are available for many hardware platforms, are based on IBM and NEC designs. The BSP_KEYBD_JPN2 setting uses the IBM keyboard, which is the default. The BSP_KEYBD_JPN1 setting uses the NEC keyboard. You can create either keyboard by linking to the Jpn1 or Jpn2 libraries in the %_WINCEROOT%\Public\Common\Oak\Drivers\Keybd\Scanvk directory.

The following table shows the scan code to virtual key mapping for the Japanese keyboard layout. The at (@) sign, which is included as part of the character, indicates that the character is a dead key. A dead key, when pressed in combination with second Unicode character, results in a third Unicode character. The dead-key tables show the Unicode characters that result from specific dead-key combinations. Virtual keys for the omitted scan codes equal zero (0).

Scan code	VK_ key
00	_none_
01	ESCAPE
02	1
03	2
04	3
05	4
06	5
07	6
08	7
09	8
0A	9
0B	0
0C	OEM_MINUS
0D	OEM_7
0E	BACK
0F	TAB
10	Q
11	W
12	E
13	R
14	T
15	Y
16	U
17	I
18	O
19	P
1A	OEM_3
1B	OEM_4
1C	RETURN
1D	LCONTROL
1E	A
1F	S
20	D
21	F
22	G
23	H
24	J
25	K
26	L
27	OEM_PLUS
28	OEM_1
29	DBE_SBCSCHAR
2A	LSHIFT
2B	OEM_6
2C	Z
2D	X
2E	C
2F	V
30	B
31	N
32	M
33	OEM_COMMA
34	OEM_PERIOD
35	OEM_2
36	RSHIFT
37	MULTIPLY
38	LMENU
39	" "
3A	DBE_ALPHANUMERIC
3B	F1
3C	F2
3D	F3
3E	F4
3F	F5
40	F6
41	F7
42	F8
43	F9
44	F10
45	NUMLOCK
46	OEM_SCROLL
47	HOME
48	UP
49	PRIOR
4A	SUBTRACT
4B	LEFT
4C	CLEAR
4D	RIGHT
4E	ADD
4F	END
50	DOWN
51	NEXT
52	INSERT
53	DELETE
54	SNAPSHOT
55	_none_
56	_none_
57	F11
58	F12
59	CLEAR
5A	NONAME
5B	NONAME
5C	NONAME
5D	EREOF
5E	_none_
5F	NONAME
60	_none_
61	_none_
62	_none_
63	_none_
64	F13
65	F14
66	F15
67	F16
68	F17
69	F18
6A	F19
6B	F20
6C	F21
6D	F22
6E	F23
6F	_none_
70	DBE_HIRAGANA
71	_none_
72	_none_
73	OEM_102
74	_none_
75	_none_
76	F24
77	_none_
78	_none_
79	CONVERT
7A	_none_
7B	NONCONVERT
7C	TAB
7D	OEM_5
7E	ABNT_C2
7F	OEM_PA2
E01C	RETURN
E01D	RCONTROL
E033	_none_
E035	DIVIDE
E037	SNAPSHOT
E038	RMENU
E042	_none_
E043	_none_
E044	_none_
E046	CANCEL
E047	HOME
E048	UP
E049	PRIOR
E04B	LEFT
E04D	RIGHT
E04F	END
E050	DOWN
E051	NEXT
E052	INSERT
E053	DELETE
E05B	LWIN
E05C	RWIN
E05D	APPS
E05E	POWER
E05F	SLEEP
E0F1	_none_
E0F2	_none_
E11D	PAUSE (See Below)

The BREAK key is sent as the sequence E1, left CTRL, NUMLOCK. The keyboard driver must convert the E1+left CTRL sequence to the BREAK key and ignore the NUMLOCK.

The next part of the Japanese keyboard layout is the virtual key to character mapping. This mapping is dependent upon the state of other modifier keys. Some characters are shown as symbols, which are described following these tables. The processing of virtual keys should be performed in the order in which the following tables are ordered.

The following table shows the characters that should be generated for each virtual key, alone and in combination with modifier keys.

Virtual key	CAPLOCK/ KANALOCK	Character	SHIFT	KANA	KANA+SHIFT
0	KANALOK	0	WCH_NONE	WCH_WA	WCH_WO
1	KANALOK	1	!	WCH_NU	WCH_NU
3	KANALOK	3	#	WCH_A	WCH_AA
4	KANALOK	4	$	WCH_U	WCH_UU
5	KANALOK	5	%	WCH_E	WCH_EE
7	KANALOK	7	0x27	WCH_YA	WCH_YAA
8	KANALOK	8	(	WCH_YU	WCH_YUU
9	KANALOK	9	)	WCH_YO	WCH_YOO
A	CAPLOK \| KANALOK	a	A	WCH_TI	WCH_TI
B	CAPLOK \| KANALOK	b	B	WCH_KO	WCH_KO
C	CAPLOK \| KANALOK	c	C	WCH_SO	WCH_SO
D	CAPLOK \| KANALOK	d	D	WCH_SI	WCH_SI
E	CAPLOK \| KANALOK	e	E	WCH_I	WCH_II
F	CAPLOK \| KANALOK	f'	F	WCH_HA	WCH_HA
G	CAPLOK \| KANALOK	g	G	WCH_KI	WCH_KI
H	CAPLOK \| KANALOK	h	H	WCH_KU	WCH_KU
I	CAPLOK \| KANALOK	i	I	WCH_NI	WCH_NI
J	CAPLOK \| KANALOK	j	J	WCH_MA	WCH_MA
K	CAPLOK \| KANALOK	k	K	WCH_NO	WCH_NO
L	CAPLOK \| KANALOK	l	L	WCH_RI	WCH_RI
M	CAPLOK \| KANALOK	m	M	WCH_MO	WCH_MO
N	CAPLOK \| KANALOK	n	N	WCH_MI	WCH_MI
O	CAPLOK \| KANALOK	o	O	WCH_RA	WCH_RA
P	CAPLOK \| KANALOK	p	P	WCH_SE	WCH_SE
Q	CAPLOK \| KANALOK	q	Q	WCH_TA	WCH_TA
R	CAPLOK \| KANALOK	r	R	WCH_SU	WCH_SU
S	CAPLOK \| KANALOK	s	S	WCH_TO	WCH_TO
T	CAPLOK \| KANALOK	t	T	WCH_KA	WCH_KA
U	CAPLOK \| KANALOK	u	U	WCH_NA	WCH_NA
V	CAPLOK \| KANALOK	v	V	WCH_HI	WCH_HI
W	CAPLOK \| KANALOK	w	W	WCH_TE	WCH_TE
X	CAPLOK \| KANALOK	x	X	WCH_SA	WCH_SA
Y	CAPLOK \| KANALOK	y	Y	WCH_NN	WCH_NN
Z	CAPLOK \| KANALOK	z	Z	WCH_TU	WCH_TUU
OEM_1	KANALOK	":"	*	WCH_KE	WCH_KE
OEM_2	KANALOK	/	?	WCH_ME	WCH_MD
OEM_3	KANALOK	@	"`"	WCH_VS	WCH_VS
OEM_7	KANALOK	^	~	WCH_HE	WCH_HE
OEM_8	0	WCH_NONE	WCH_NONE	WCH_NONE	WCH_NONE
OEM_COMMA	KANALOK	","	<	WCH_NE	WCH_IC
OEM_PERIOD	KANALOK	"."	>	WCH_RU	WCH_IP
OEM_PLUS	KANALOK	";"	+	WCH_RE	WCH_RE
TAB	0	\t	\t	\t	\t
ADD	0	+	+	+	+
DECIMAL	0	"."	"."	"."	"."
DIVIDE	0	/	/	/	/
MULTIPLY	0	*	*	*	*
SUBTRACT	0	-	-	-	-

Note CAPSLOK and KANALOK indicate that a key is affected by the state of the CAPS LOCK and KANA LOCK keys.

Virtual key	CAPSLOCK / KANALOCK	Char	SHIFT	KANA	KANA+SHIFT
BACK	0	\b	\b	\b	\b
CANCEL	0	0x03	0x03	0x03	0x03
ESCAPE	0	0x1b	0x1b	0x1b	0x1b
OEM_4	KANALOK	[	{	WCH_SVS	WCH_OB
OEM_5	KANALOK	\\	\|	WCH_PS	WCH_PS
OEM_102	KANALOK	\\	_	WCH_RO	WCH_RO
OEM_6	KANALOK	]	}	WCH_MU	WCH_CB
RETURN	0	\r	\r	\r	\r
SPACE	0	" "	" "	" "	" "

VK_key	CTRL	KANA+CTRL
BACK	0x7f	0x7f
CANCEL	0x03	0x03
ESCAPE	0x1b	0x1b
OEM_4	0x1b	0x1b
OEM_5	0x1c	0x1c
OEM_102	0x1c	0x1c
OEM_6	0x1d	0x1d
RETURN	\n	\n
SPACE	0x20	0x20

Virtual key	CAPSLOCK / KANALOK*	Char	SHIFT	KANA	KANA+SHIFT
2	KANALOK	2	"	WCH_HU	WCH_HU
6	KANALOK	6	&	WCH_O	WCH_OO
OEM_MINUS	KANALOK	-	=	WCH_HO	WCH_HO

Virtual key	CTRL	KANA+CTRL	SHIFT+CTRL	KANA+SHIFT+CTRL
2	WCH_NONE	WCH_NONE	0x00	0x00
6	WCH_NONE	WCH_NONE	0x1e	0x1e
OEM_MINUS	WCH_NONE	WCH_NONE	0x1f	0x1f

VK_	Char	SHIFT	KANA	KANA+SHIFT
NUMPAD0	0	WCH_NONE	0	WCH_NONE
NUMPAD1	1	WCH_NONE	1	WCH_NONE
NUMPAD2	2	WCH_NONE	2	WCH_NONE
NUMPAD3	3	WCH_NONE	3	WCH_NONE
NUMPAD4	4	WCH_NONE	4	WCH_NONE
NUMPAD5	5	WCH_NONE	5	WCH_NONE
NUMPAD6	6	WCH_NONE	6	WCH_NONE
NUMPAD7	7	WCH_NONE	7	WCH_NONE
NUMPAD8	8	WCH_NONE	8	WCH_NONE
NUMPAD9	9	WCH_NONE	9	WCH_NONE

The following table defines the character symbols used in the previous table.

Define	Unicode value	Character
WCH_IP	FF61	Ideographic period
WCH_OB	FF62	Opening corner bracket
WCH_CB	FF63	Closing corner bracket
WCH_IC	FF64	Ideographic comma
WCH_MD	FF65	Katakana middle dot
WCH_WO	FF66	Katakana syllable wo
WCH_AA	FF67	Katakana letter lowercase a
WCH_II	FF68	Katakana letter lowercase i
WCH_UU	FF69	Katakana letter lowercase u
WCH_EE	FF6A	Katakana letter lowercase e
WCH_OO	FF6B	Katakana letter lowercase o
WCH_YAA	FF6C	Katakana syllable lowercase ya
WCH_YUU	FF6D	Katakana syllable lowercase yu
WCH_YOO	FF6E	Katakana syllable lowercase yo
WCH_TUU	FF6F	Katakana syllable lowercase tu
WCH_PS	FF70	Katakana prolonged sound mark
WCH_A	FF71	Katakana letter A
WCH_I	FF72	Katakana letter I
WCH_U	FF73	Katakana letter U
WCH_E	FF74	Katakana letter E
WCH_O	FF75	Katakana letter O
WCH_KA	FF76	Katakana syllable ka
WCH_KI	FF77	Katakana syllable ki
WCH_KU	FF78	Katakana syllable ku
WCH_KE	FF79	Katakana syllable ke
WCH_KO	FF7A	Katakana syllable ko
WCH_SA	FF7B	Katakana syllable sa
WCH_SI	FF7C	Katakana syllable si
WCH_SU	FF7D	Katakana syllable su
WCH_SE	FF7E	Katakana syllable su
WCH_SO	FF7F	Katakana syllable so
WCH_TA	FF80	Katakana syllable ta
WCH_TI	FF81	Katakana syllable ti
WCH_TU	FF82	Katakana syllable tu
WCH_TE	FF83	Katakana syllable te
WCH_TO	FF84	Katakana syllable to
WCH_NA	FF85	Katakana syllable na
WCH_NI	FF86	Katakana syllable ni
WCH_NU	FF87	Katakana syllable nu
WCH_NE	FF88	Katakana syllable ne
WCH_NO	FF89	Katakana syllable no
WCH_HA	FF8A	Katakana syllable ha
WCH_HI	FF8B	Katakana syllable hi
WCH_HU	FF8C	Katakana syllable hu
WCH_HE	FF8D	Katakana syllable he
WCH_HO	FF8E	Katakana syllable ho
WCH_MA	FF8F	Katakana syllable ma
WCH_MI	FF90	Katakana syllable mi
WCH_MU	FF91	Katakana syllable mu
WCH_ME	FF92	Katakana syllable me
WCH_MO	FF93	Katakana syllable mo
WCH_YA	FF94	Katakana syllable ya
WCH_YU	FF95	Katakana syllable yu
WCH_YO	FF96	Katakana syllable yo
WCH_RA	FF97	Katakana syllable ra
WCH_RI	FF98	Katakana syllable ri
WCH_RU	FF99	Katakana syllable ru
WCH_RE	FF9A	Katakana syllable re
WCH_RO	FF9B	Katakana syllable ro
WCH_WA	FF9C	Katakana syllable wa
WCH_NN	FF9D	Katakana letter n
WCH_VS	FF9E	Katakana voiced sound mark
WCH_SVS	FF9F	Katakana semi-voiced sound mark

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