Kenny202

I know how to remap on Windows but it only remaps your Laptop / built in keyboard. It wont do third party keyboards unfortunately. In this case the origin of the keyboard is very relevant as the Japanese layout is different and has about 10 more keys. I will try another forum though it isn't a huge deal for me as it is working fine on the Ipad and that's predominantly what I bought it for. I was being a cheapskate getting a used Japanese bargain basement magic 2 keyboard for 800 baht lol. Now I know why it was so cheap. Anyway, like I said works fine on Apple so not stressed. Thanks for your help

Long shot here but give it a whirl. I bought an apple magic keyboard (Japanese / English) off marketplace for my Ipad. Works a treat. As a bonus I was hoping to use it with my PC but many of the shift / symbol keys in different areas to whats shown on the keyboard. Mainly symbols above the numbers (+, ( , ) ,* etc etc. When I connect to the Ipad it actually asks if I want to use it in Japanese or English layout. Selecting English works perfectly on the Ipad. Just wondering if someone knows of a setting or something I can change on the Windows PC to make it recognize the keyboard correctly. Yes its Japanese English, yes I am an idiot, yes buyer beware, pay peanuts get monkeys etc etc. No motherly advice please, just someone that may have a solution thanks 🙂

Well it is an Apple Keyboard albeit using with a Windows PC and the forum is Apple products. One each way bet really and you know good old Asean Now, someone will be along to tell you you are in the wrong forum no matter where you post 🙂 I will give it another day here, cancel the post and try the general computer area. I doubt I will get an answer anyway really....strange question generally

Long shot here but give it a whirl. I bought an apple magic keyboard (Japanese / English) off marketplace for my Ipad. Works a treat. As a bonus I was hoping to use it with my PC but many of the shift / symbol keys in different areas to whats shown on the keyboard. Mainly symbols above the numbers (+, ( , ) ,* etc etc. When I connect to the Ipad it actually asks if I want to use it in Japanese or English layout. Selecting English works perfectly. Just wondering if someone knows of a setting or something I can change on the PC to make it recognize the keyboard correctly. Yes its Japanese English, yes I am an idiot, yes buyer beware, pay peanuts get monkeys etc etc. No motherly advice please, just someone that may have a solution thanks 🙂

I can answer all of those questions but in this case will refrain on some issues. A lot more to the story than I can discuss in an open forum. He was working off shore FIFO so no need for a yearly visa. He came home unexpectedly and you can guess what (or who) he discovered going on in his home. She bailed, he got left with the kids. He currently has a tourist visa and several (too many) extensions already. I'm not really sure how hes been doing it but in and out then extending that out as far as possible then repeat again. Think he has gotten away with it three times, maybe more. I have been telling him for 9 months get the kids citizenship and passports sorted out as I have been through all this stuff myself. Not sure on the visa exempt, or what that means? He doesn't even seem sure of anything himself and in all honesty through lack of getting in front of the problem pretty much only himself to blame...but unfortunately 2 very small children involved. Hes had ample time to get the kids passports, citizenship back home...all that sort of stuff but continues to procrastinate. I fear he may be at the end of his luck. If he cant get this visa he has 60 days to get them passports, visas and get them sorted out to leave the country, which may or may not be enough time. The 60 day entry he got yesterday could possibly be the O visa? I am not even sure he has his court custody papers in order if in fact that's what they are and not just an agreement with his ex wife that the kids can live with him but both still maintain joint custody. Obviously hes one of these people doesn't check anything and hopes for the best. He says he has full custody but I have my doubts. I told him exactly what may happen and he could become separated from the kids if he runs out of time which he refuses to believe anyone or government would do. He will find out tomorrow if he can reapply for the support of a Thai child extension or he has to start making arrangements to go home.

Got a mate here been left with two near babies (wife scarpered). They were married and he has already done the full custody thing through the courts so no issue about paternity. Hes been living here on tourist visas and border hops for far too long and things are becoming urgent so this is a genuine asking for a friend question. He has his hands full and seemingly terrible at organizing anything or paper work so trying to help him out. He engaged the service of a visa agent who claimed she would sort out the O (or OA?) visa and from there get all the parental visa sorted. Hes 42 so cant get a retirement visa. Was a surprise to me as I've had a parental visa for 5 years and had to jump through quite a few hoops to get it. I did mine all by myself. She called him yesterday to say she put in the application but was rejected yesterday because the officers came to his home to interview him and his 2 or 3 witnesses / sponsors and he should have brought them to the IO. Not sure how that works as it was IO who suggested they come to his home so if there was a mistake it was theirs. Immigration admitted they made a mistake but said head office issue. Anyway, none of it making much sense and he is starting to wonder if he is being taken for a ride. I have no idea about O or OA visas apart from I originally got an OA visa from Australia which I later extended for retirement, then converted to parent as I also have a Thai child. He has been told he needs to get an O visa, which she also said she would organize but he has to go out of the country and back in again to get. Is that how it works? OA visa from your home country....O visa from a 3rd party country consulate or something? I remember when I got my OA visa I basically got a year....which I actually ended up getting near 2 years by leaving and re entering just before the end of the 12 months. Is an O visa the same ie 12 months? He has been told O visa for 3 months then extension as a parent visa. I said to him today well she would need the O visa sorted out before applying for the parent visa or do they do the lot at the same time ie you have to qualify for the parent visa and jump through all the hoops, application etc before starting the O visa process? Not sure what he needs to do now, looks like start the whole process again. I think he wrongly assumed the agent would do some magic but its more of a hand holding thing where he is still going to have to supply all the required photos, docs etc. Can anyone advise what the O visa / extension to parent process is? Does what he is being told sound right?

I turned up this morning 9.15, not a soul in the place. Had my form and copies of 6 or 7 things signed and dated. She just looked at all those and pushed them aside (I'm guessing for the round file), brought my details up on the PC and printed the next due report sheet off. In and out under 5 minutes....pretty much as reported. Makes me wonder if many foreigners have left Thailand. When I did my extension last time also only a couple of people there. Used to be so busy

I answered that many posts ago. Khon Kaen

I also never got a reminder and usually do

Khon Kaen

Hi all, been doing my 90 days reports online now for at least 3 years. I just renewed my parental extension and did my first online 90 days after the extension was done. It got rejected twice with a note saying report in person. My friend told me that if they don't renew your 90 days at the time of the extension the first 90 day report you do after the extension will be rejected and you need to report in person. Is that correct? If my memory serves me correctly the last few years they did renew my 90 days at extension time whether it was due or not. So just wondering of someone can refresh my memory apart from filling out the form and a copy of my passport, extension stamp and last entry slip....is there anything else I need to take?

I don't suppose you can turn off the general speech to text function and just use the basic spoken commands to navigate back and forth....home page, go back etc? Other issue I have is I participate in live online auctions, where I need to send a bid so have to have the comment section open. Problem is it also records the persons speech talking on the live auctions speech lol. Or the TV sometimes in the background if I have a text window or message open. The auction I can get around it using headphones of course

Funny you mention that lol. I thought those commands you can use in accessibility were only the general commands...Go home, Go back etc. Which work great. I didn't realize you could also dictate messages etc with them. I was just finishing off a message to someone last night, just before I looked down and saw many expletives in my reply. I was swearing a blue streak at the TV or something and didn't realize it would appear in my message hahahaha

Such an easy and obvious fix lol. Thank you so much! Works a treat