questions relating to the Japanese language and fonts
Questions tagged [japanese]
145 questions
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Make IBus-Mozc start in Hiragana rather than Direct input mode
Every time I restart my computer and want to type in Japanese, pressing Super+Space is not enough, I also have to select Hiragana in Mozc's menu:
It gets me everytime. It is a bit like if your car's brake acted as an accelerator the first time you…
Nicolas Raoul
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How to unzip a Japanese ZIP file, and avoid mojibake/garbled characters
I received a ZIP file from a Japanese customer.
When I try to unzip it the file and folders names are messed up:
$ unzip ~/Downloads/【新入荷ECM】資料.zip
...
inflating: БyРVУ№Й╫ECMБzОСЧ┐/123_ГЖБ[ГXГPБ[ГX.xlsx
What is the problem, and how to avoid it?
Nicolas Raoul
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Japanese input on 16.04 with Fcitx and Mozc
Typing Japanese on Ubuntu used to mean ibus-mozc, but ibus-mozc has been less and less maintained since 2015:
Ubuntu 15.10 is supposed to start using Fcitx rather than ibus as their default input method (input method framework), which is another…
Nicolas Raoul
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16.04 Japanese Text Input not working
There were a set of extra steps I needed to take with Ubuntu 14.04 that got Japanese text input working, but the same steps seem to not apply to 16.04. The system toggles between "En" and "Ja", but all it's doing (functionally) is switching from an…
TKLHS
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Japanese default input mode
I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 on my PC, I use Mozc to input Japanese. Its default input mode is direct input(input English), I need to change it to hirakana everytime after restarting PC. Can I make hirakana to default?
Ives
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How can I copy text from dialog boxes and menus?
I am learning Japanese and installed the OS in Japanese to immerse myself in the language. Sometimes I want to copy messages from windows, menus and dialog boxes so that I can look them up on the dictionary, but I cant. I saw that there there many…
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How can I type Japanese characters?
What is the way to be able to type Japanese characters? Could someone make a how-to in order to explain the few steps to get it?
Agmenor
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How to enable japanese input in Ubuntu Mate 18.04?
Not much to elaborate on my side: how can I enable japanese input on ubuntu mate 18.04? I tried adding japanese language support and restarting. But I still don't see any viable keyboard layout to add.
Kalmar
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Some applications use "archaic" character instead of modern Japanese one
I just installed Natty from scratch with default options and English UI. I did not change any font settings.
I happen to also read Japanese, it mostly displays fine but the 社 character (meaning "company", a widely-used character) is sometimes…
Nicolas Raoul
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How do I toggle to katakana input from hiragana with fcitx-mozc text entry? (16.04)
I am using a Japanese 109-key keyboard. I can use the zenkaku (全角) toggle key to switch between romaji and hiragana input, but the katakana/hiragana/romaji (カタカナ・ひらがな・ローマ字) toggle key has no effect.
(I'm using Ubuntu 16.04)
tyknkd
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Cannot find Japanese(Mozc) or Japanese(Anthy) in 20.04
I want to type in japanese and therefore installed the Japanese language through settings. When I go to select the language, I can find the language Japanese, but cannot find the specific Japanese(Mozc) or Japanese(Anthy). I have run
sudo apt-get…
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How to set Japanese as input source?
I am trying to learn Japanese, and I thought that as a part of this it would be good if my computer allowed me to type in Japanese, however after installing the Japanese language packs and setting my Input Sources section to also have Japanese, when…
user364819
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When using mozc to input Japanese, it's using the last selected keyboard layout to input romaji - can I fix which one it uses?
I'm setting up Ubuntu to be able to input in three keyboard layouts:
English (US)
German
Japanese (Mozc)(IBus)
What I'm finding is if I switch from English to Japanese directly, then romaji is input with a QWERTY keyboard, but if I switch to…
Thalfon
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How to convert Kanji back to Kana?
I am learning Japanese, but I haven't really learnt much Kanji yet, though I know a lot of the spoken stuff and can read Hiragana and Katakana. So I was wondering if there is some tool that can be given Kanji and will convert it back to Hiragana…
user364819
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How can I type in japanese on Lubuntu?
I just started learning japanese and I want to be able to type in japanese to practice. I installed japanese from the language support but when I go into keyboard input methods I cannot add japanese because the option is locked.
user435476