Stickers for keyboard

Hollycat wrote:

Well I did consider making my own stickers but as this is my first new computer is over 10 years the homemade idea did not appeal.  There are stickers on amazon but was dubious if they would ever arrive (like most things posted form the UK)

USB keyboard was my first idea but this is for my laptop so would be a bit awkward to use while lying on my sofa (a friend initially used a USB keyboard but got stickers later for this reason)

Thanks for all of the advice

You can just buy another keyboard for your laptop (I don't mean a USB one, I mean a spare part replacement). I had a German keyboard on my laptop for years even though I was using the British layout in Windows. I got the German one because I spilt coffee on the original British one and the German one was the only one I could get very quickly at the time of my coffee disaster. After a while, you get used to it. I've now got a laptop which has a spill resistant keyboard.

Similarly, a friend of has learnt to type and now does not need to look at the keyboard. He just types in multiple languages. Took him a while to master it but he's quite good at it now.

You could also try mastering the key strokes for HU characters using the Windows free/built-in Charmap utility (plenty of explanations on the web - just Google it). Bit clumsy on a laptop though.

For Japanese people, learning these kinds of codes is 2nd nature - some of their characters need 3 key strokes.