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?
Also try crossposting to !kde@lemmy.kde.social
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.
Yeah I tried that this weekend and it messed up my keyboard layout switcher.
I’ll need to look at videos like you suggested.
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.
The thing you’re looking for is called an Input Method Editor. The only one I’ve ever used on Linux is Fcitx which I really liked. I haven’t used it in a few years though.