Re: writing Hiragana/Katakana/Kanji with a US keyboard
2012/3/6 Kazuo Ishii <freeparis2@gmail.com>:
> Now I use Japanese input method using US keyboard on Debian Wheezy.
>
> Anthy and Mozc is good. And I use ibus.
>
> Please, input
>
> sudo apt-get install ibus-anthy (on Squeeze or Wheezy)
>
> or
>
> sudo apt-get install ibus-mozc (on Wheezy)
>
> Best,
>
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> Kazuo Ishii, Ph.D., Professor of Genome Science,
> Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
> 3-5-8 Saiwai-cho, Fuchu, Tokyo 183-8509, JAPAN
> Email: kishii@cc.tuat.ac.jp
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>
> 2012/3/7, Kelly Clowers <kelly.clowers@gmail.com>:
>> 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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>
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> Kazuo Ishii, Ph.D., Professor of Genome Science,
> Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
> 3-5-8 Saiwai-cho, Fuchu, Tokyo 183-8509, JAPAN
> Email: kishii@cc.tuat.ac.jp, Phone: +81 80 4036 4315
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