Windows 10: Real life keyboard incorrectly interpreted

Hello,


Firstly, I apologize in advance if my English is strange and/or unclear, I am not a native speaker and I wish to have the widest range of answers possible. I will try my best.


-- Introduction & background --

I have a problem with my keyboard in Windows 10 Home Edition, version 1909, that I just reinstalled a few days ago, likely because of Windows Update product key was "removed" or something. The problem is not to reinstall Windows 10, I managed somehow to keep the product key simply using the installation utility on a USB drive.


As install language from the USB utility, I chose US English. Maybe that is the root of the issue. The process went without any problem. I then installed different languages using the Settings screen. "Preferred languages", "Add a default language", "Add a keyboard" etc.

Concretely, the languages and keyboards I use are:

- US English, with US English keyboard layout
- French, with French AZERTY keyboard layout
- French, with Japanese QWERTY keyboard layout
- Japanese, IME auto-convert by hitting the Space key


Yes, it is complicated. My real life keyboard is a JAPANESE layout keyboard with the switch key for latin characters input / auto-convert into kana then kanji by hitting the Space key.


-- The problem, concretely --

US English shows nothing wrong, it works as expected, knowing the "logical" layout interpreted by Windows does not match the "physical" layout of the keyboard. French in AZERTY layout keyboard works fine too, I know where to find any character I want to type.

So, the problem is with Japanese or French on Japanese QWERTY keyboard layout. Whatever I type is interpreted as US English.


For example left is the real life key symbol or character, right is the result on screen, ... is the key location on my Japanese keyboard:

- " becomes @ shift 2

- @ becomes [ first key to the right of p

- ] becomes \ third key to the right of l

- and going on...

I almost turned insane while typing that above. And of course I need to type special characters and symbols all the time.


-- What did I try so far? --

- Googling it. Many people offer tutorials and solutions but the settings they speak about are not available on my Windows 10 version, apparently.
- Adding / removing keyboards to and from the languages in the Settings screen.
- Looking for any "Advanced settings" in the Control Panel.
- Checked Registry values, comparing with modifications made by people who had a seemingly similar problem, but I did not change anything, their registry values and mine were identical
- Another physical keyboard same Japanese layout, just to be sure

Nothing works. Even saying "Please!" to Windows does not.


I have no idea anymore. Maybe I am blind and do not see the obvious setting.
So, please, anyone! If you have an idea, or if you had the same problem or somehow, please help me.


Thank you for reading my post this far. I hope it made sense.

Thanks in advance for any suggestion,
Have a good day / a good night.

:)

 

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