On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 06:14, Arthur Marsh <[email protected]> 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAFoWM=8ejg8dncj861sq8wdzoc_jufeurzlsafkmvnjywuv...@mail.gmail.com
