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Trouble with IME - mezbup - 2009-12-12
K so I'm using the google IME and I can switch between English input and Japanese IME by using Alt+Shift but whenever I do the Japanese IME defaults to writing in English and it seems theres no way I can get it to default to writing in Hiragana and when the Japanese IME is open I have to manually go and click on which input method I want.
Help??
The options/settings don't seem to be very helpful
Trouble with IME - Jarvik7 - 2009-12-12
Why would you switch between English and Japanese IME, when the Japanese IME can let you input romaji too?
Trouble with IME - nest0r - 2009-12-12
Ya, I just leave mine on JP Direct Input, then alt+tilde to switch to hiragana.
Trouble with IME - torida - 2009-12-12
Some programs don't display text the same using JP Direct Input. I switch between English / JP using Alt+Shift too, but nest0r has just solved the prob for you — Alt+tilde (~) is the magic key combo you need to switch to hiragana
(no option I know of to leave it on hiragana by default though, anyone else help here?)
Trouble with IME - mezbup - 2009-12-12
brilliant! you legend
Thanks. Don't know why the hell it was so unclear as to not even tell me how to switch like that but it works like a charm. This forum is the best thing to happen to Japanese learning I swear
Such a helpful place.
Trouble with IME - kapalama - 2010-02-27
Can someone explain this to me again? I am using the Google IME, but there it just seems to randomly switch back and forth between romaji and hiragana.
If I capitalize the first letter of a sentence it lets me type in romaji, but any punctuation puts in back in Hiragana mode. (I am on a Mac if that makes any difference.)
Trouble with IME - Tobberoth - 2010-02-27
torida Wrote:Some programs don't display text the same using JP Direct Input. I switch between English / JP using Alt+Shift too, but nest0r has just solved the prob for you — Alt+tilde (~) is the magic key combo you need to switch to hiraganaFor some stupid reason you can't. You can remap the keys though.
Personally I use ctrl+caps lock to go from romaji to hiragana.
Trouble with IME - Jarvik7 - 2010-02-27
Why use a key combo? Just use something like "keyremap4macbook" to remap a dead key to be kana/eisuu toggle like on a Japanese keyboard. I have the right option key set as that.
Trouble with IME - chochajin - 2010-02-27
I also have had some problems with my IME lately and I have NO idea what's going on. I doubt anybody can help me with this, but at least I wanna try.
It's difficult to describe the problem, though.
For example, until a while ago I could type はてな when I wanted to have a "?" if I type it now the only thing IME is offering me is this: はて名
Yesterday it happened again. I always used かお in order to get a few 顔文字, now the it's only offering me crap when typing it like ヵ尾 (first choice) 顔 is not even in the list!!!! What's going on???????????????
Trouble with IME - liosama - 2010-02-27
torida Wrote:Some programs don't display text the same using JP Direct Input. I switch between English / JP using Alt+Shift too, but nest0r has just solved the prob for you — Alt+tilde (~) is the magic key combo you need to switch to hiraganaWindows can let you select which one you want to leave default (I'm pretty sure)
Trouble with IME - Offshore - 2010-02-27
@chochajin I know practically nothing about this topic but it sounds somewhat similar to a problem I had with Microsoft IME awhile back. I had downloaded some new IME dictionaries that were used for all sorts of かおもじ and included preset phrases with some of them.
I noticed a few days later though that for some reason, whenever I would type anything using kana or kanji, it would give me complete gibberish. I couldn't even convert わたし to 私 correctly. Everything was just a one big mess. In the end, I ended up deleting the dictionaries I had DL'ed, and my IME went back to normal. I'm not sure if the IME just got confused with what dictionary was being referenced or what, but I tried selecting certain dictionaries to use and all sorts of other stuff, but it didn't fix the problem.
Like I said, my experience with IME is very beginner/limited. Just throwing in my experience because it sounded somewhat similar :/
Edit: I never switch between JP and English input either. No point as Jarvik7 said because JP allows romaji input anyway. Mine's set to romaji input default, and I have it worked so ctrl + caps lock switches to hiragana, alt + caps lock takes me to katakana, and alt + ~ switches me back to romaji.
I don't mess around with IME because I honestly don't understand the program much, but I do think that Windows can let you set whatever default you want, as another poster said.
2nd edit: I looked around on my IME. There's a lot of stuff you can change if you go to the properties menu. I think Tobberoth was right about not being able to set hiragana as the default input. Mine says hiragana is the default input method, but it doesn't work for some reason.
I think it only works if you set your keyboard to kana direct input instead of romaji direct input. Which is useless for me since I don't have a JP keyboard and I'll never remember which keys correspond to which kana
Trouble with IME - JimmySeal - 2010-02-27
chochajin Wrote:For example, until a while ago I could type はてな when I wanted to have a "?" if I type it now the only thing IME is offering me is this: はて名Your IME woes seem unfortunate and I hope you figure them out, but why would you use six keystrokes for something that requires only Shift+/?
Trouble with IME - ruiner - 2010-02-27
JimmySeal Wrote:That's probably the problem. The IME is *too* intelligent. It's like 'Enough! Just type the damned question mark yourself.'chochajin Wrote:For example, until a while ago I could type はてな when I wanted to have a "?" if I type it now the only thing IME is offering me is this: はて名Your IME woes seem unfortunate and I hope you figure them out, but why would you use six keystrokes for something that requires only Shift+/?
Trouble with IME - chochajin - 2010-02-27
JimmySeal Wrote:Your IME woes seem unfortunate and I hope you figure them out, but why would you use six keystrokes for something that requires only Shift+/?That's because it doesn't work like that on a Germany keyboard! ....