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		stordoff on March 25, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Weirdest hack that you ever saw in product... It's used by the Japanese IME on Windows: Ctrl+CapsLock - hiragana input, Alt+CapsLock - katakana input, Shift+CapsLack - alphanumeric input.

bananicorn on March 28, 2018 [–]

I like your typo in the last capslock, it accurately describes my capslock key ;)

Though, that actually is interesting, and you made me read up ab bit on Japanese.

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