CHARACTER INPUT DEVICE, GAMING APPARATUS TO WHICH SAME HAS BEEN APPLIED, CONTROL METHOD USED FOR SAME, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

摘要

Provided is a character input device capable of recommending a character arrangement state which is different for each character set. The character input device is a character input device which provides first and second keyboard states for which the character arrangements of each character used for input are mutually different, and for which input of characters of a plurality of character sets is possible using the character arrangement states, said character input device being provided with an external storage device (20) which stores utilization data (23) for determining, for each of the character sets, the utilization of each of the character arrangement states. In addition, the character input device, on the basis of the utilization data (23), determines, for each of the character sets, the character arrangement state to provide from among the first and second keyboard states, and on the basis of the determination result, depending on the character set to be used, provides a character arrangement state corresponding to the character set to be used as an initial character arrangement state.