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

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

On Tuesday 06 March 2012 16:40:18 Lisi wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 March 2012 16:14:08 Lisi wrote:
> > 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.  

There are several extra packages needed for Japanese, including anthy, which 
someone else has mentioned.

Osamu has done a good HOWTO on this.

Lisi