EMULATION METHOD FOR MULTILINGUAL VIRTUAL KEYBOARD AND MULTILINGUAL VIRTUAL KEYBOARD EMULATED BY THE SAME

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a device for emulating a multilingual real keyboard to a character input virtual switch used on a touch panel or the like.SOLUTION: To the real keyboard of a standard key array for selecting a required character from a character set including a plurality of characters packaged by one attribute, an address code for determining the positions of respective character keys of the real keyboard is added for the respective character keys to which the respective characters of the character set are allocated. The address code of the real keyboard is made to correspond to a virtual switch in which a plurality of character groups are alternatively selected, the character representing the character group is arranged at the center, the other characters included in the character group are arranged at the periphery, and a required character is alternatively selected from the character group. The character array of the real keyboard of the character set packaged by one attribute is emulated by the character array of the virtual switch.