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#1 2017-10-19 09:21:56
- Myersj281
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japanese input not quite what i wanted
I have Japanese and English (both UTF-8) enabled in locale.gen. I'm using Gnome 3 and have Japanese(kana) input enabled in the settings (I switch between it and English with an extension on the panel). unfortunately it just replaces each key with a katakana character. Not only does this limit me to just katakana but what I want is to type in romanji and have it convert to hiragana, katakana or kanji as I type. I.E. if I type "sh" it shows "sh" but once I type "i" after it, "shi" changes to "し", "シ", or a kanji character based on the context of what I'm typing.
After Googling "archlinux japanese input" I found this page in the Arch wiki but My system is running with vary limited storage so I don't want to install them all and see which one works in this way. Does anyone know how this can be done?
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#2 2017-10-20 07:56:22
- robg
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Re: japanese input not quite what i wanted
Unless they have changed it since I used it last time, Gnome uses IBus as the input method for non-latin, asian input alphabets. Installing ibus and ibus-anthy (the former is just the input framework, the latter provides Japanese language support) should do it.
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#3 2017-10-20 08:02:01
- NoSuck
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Re: japanese input not quite what i wanted
How experienced are you with IMEs? It sounds like you're set to kana mode. Switch to romaji mode.
Kana mode is more efficient, by the way.
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#4 2017-10-20 22:24:07
- fuyuki
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Re: japanese input not quite what i wanted
I haven't used GNOME in a very long time, but I know in KDE I've had the most luck with fcitx-Anthy. fcitx-kkc was also not bad.
If GNOME includes iBus by default as stated above, iBus-Anthy was also pretty good, though I did have to mess around in config files before it would work in several applications.
I honestly wouldn't bother with the others (uim, etc.). As I recall, most of them haven't been supported in some time, and have compatibility issues as a result--though they are still usable.
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