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

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. 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.

Sorry. I failed to proof read. :-(

Lisi



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