Re: writing Hiragana/Katakana/Kanji with a US keyboard
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 06:14, Arthur Marsh
<arthur.marsh@internode.on.net> 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?
Scim and ibus are both pretty god as far as I know. Each has at least one
IME for Japanese.
I don't know for sure, but I have heard that even most Japanese do not put
their keyboards into raw Hiragana mode, but use Latin mode and an
input method.
I do happen to have a JP keyboard (though I don't speak or write it),
I rather like some of the key placements, e.g. @ is unshifted on the key
right of p, ~ is (shifted) near 0, and left of L is (unshifted) ; and then
(unshifted) :
Quotes are tricky, though, double is shift-2 and single is shift-7
Also, there is nothing similar to US-intl for JP, I have to shift-shift
to go to US-intl layout and remember where keys are.
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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