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Japanese keyboard layout and input in KDE Plasma 5 (lemmy.ca)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello,

I'm taking Japanese lessons online and I need to communicate with my tutor in Japanese via chat.

I've set my keyboard layouts in the KDE settings as English US, French Canadian and Japanese (default). But when I switch to Japanese, I still have an English US layout when I type.

I was expecting it to be more like in Windows where you can switch between Standard alphabet (Romaji), Hiragana and Katakana with a kind of an auto complete.

Am I doing something wrong?

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[–] ownsauce 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Install Mozc Japanese instead and then learn the keyboard shortcuts to toggle between english and japanese, and the F keys to toggle between english(direct input), hiragana, katakana with width variations. You can edit the shortcuts in settings if you like.

I use mozc in android and linux.

https://github.com/google/mozc Search the web or watch youtube videos for guides if you need help installing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I tried that this weekend and it messed up my keyboard layout switcher.

I'll need to look at videos like you suggested.

[–] ownsauce 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

When I switch from English (US) to Japanese (Mozc), the default option is "Direct input" meaning my US keyboard layout. Im sure if I check in settings I could change the default.

I have a dropdown menu on my Desktop Dock for Input mode. I have to change it over to Hiragana to start (I haven't figured out the keyboard shortcut yet for that step).

So I hit Super + Space to switch to Japanese Mozc Then I use my mouse to change from "Direct Input" to "Hiragana"

Not sure if that's where you were having issues, but yeah there's probably some youtube guides that'll help.

Edit:this guide here helped me. I had to set shortcuts for the muhenkan, henkan, and eisu keys, but now I don't need to use my mouse anymore to swtich.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/561486/how-do-i-switch-input-modes-in-mozc-without-going-to-the-ibus-menu