Re: writing Hiragana/Katakana/Kanji with a US keyboard

[Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 06 March 2012 14:14:18 Arthur Marsh wrote:
> Hi, what is the best way under Debian to write Japanese text? Is a
> Japanese keyboard a major help or can a US keyboard work alright.
>
> What needs to be installed and configured to compose kana and kanji
> characters?

I use scim/skim and an ordinary keyboard.  I just type phonetically and teh 
kana come up.  When teh kana reachjes teh end of teh word, I am offered all 
possible kanji for the kana in question and can chose eitgher to stay with 
kana (for a child?) nor to sat which kanji I require.  It isn't installed on 
this computer yet, so I can't demonstrate.  But by phonetically I mean e.g. 
type chihiro which will come up in kana as i complete each syllable.

scim will, of course, require configuring.

Lisi