Mac OSX 10.6 105-key keyboard layout for japanese

Question

I'm quite a novice when it comes to Mac OS X (but I am an IT professional using Windows and Linux), but I have recently started using one.

The computer came with a 109-key japanese keyboard, but I want to use a 105-key english keyboard with it. Since this is the actual keyboard layout (not the key mapping), if this were Windows, I would go to the device manager, and change the keyboard driver to "105-key keyboard".

How do I do this in Mac OSX 10.6?

Edit: The actual scancodes for the 109-keyboard are different from those for the 105-keyboard, because of this, I need to change the keyboard driver, not the input source.

Edit2: I'm experiencing this exact problem: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927824 I just need the equivalent solution for Mac OS X

Answer 1

You can change your keyboard at System Preferences -> Languages and Text -> Input Sources.

Answer 2

After more than a week, I found the answer to this issue. The details are explained in here:

http://msyk.net/macos/winkeyboard/#

Mostly, what you have to do is set the japanese kotoeri keyboard, and in the kotoeri preferences, set your language of choice for romaji input. I found that the english layout didn't work as I wanted, but the spanish one seemed to work perfectly.

Unfortunately, this is not available for the google japanese input.

Answer 3

Actually, I found that by adding and using the Australian keyboard as another input (Language & Texts -> Input Sources, not through the kotoeri preferences) my similar issue was solved.

Setting to the kotoeri preference to use Spanish was almost perfect except typing > would launch the kotoeri word register.

Don't know why Australian works and not US, but I am happy for now I can use synergy and connect to my Japanese MacBook with a US keyboard attached to my synergy server.