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How to type【 】via Mac's kotoeri? - gfb345 - 2010-04-03
How can one type Japanese-style【brackets/parentheses】using the Mac's kotoeri input method (System Preferences>International>Input Menu>Kotoeri). This input method works OK for me for most things, including other Japanese-style punctuation (like 。、「」『』), but I can't figure out how to get【 】. Does anyone know how to do it without resorting to cut-and-paste (the method I used for this post), or switching to Unicode input?
TIA!
How to type【 】via Mac's kotoeri? - Jarvik7 - 2010-04-03
【】 comes up fine for me in kotoeri using [] keys. I recommend switching to the Google IME or ATOK though.
How to type【 】via Mac's kotoeri? - Blahah - 2010-04-03
Hmm I get「」when typing [] in kotoeri. You are looking for alt+9, alt+0.
Here is how, with standard settings, to get all bracket types...
shift+9 = （
shift+0 = ）
alt+9 = 【
alt+0 = 】
alt+shift+9 =〔
alt+shift+0 = 〕
[ = 「
] = 」
you can also just type any set of brackets (),[],{},「」etc., then press the down arrow to get a list of all bracket types, and choose the one you are looking for.
Jarvik7 Wrote:I recommend switching to the Google IME or ATOK though.Why do you recommend the change? Kotoeri seems to be really quite nice, and trackpad handwriting is useful for kanji whose pronunciation I don't know. Are there some better features which I'm missing out on and haven't noticed?
How to type【 】via Mac's kotoeri? - Jarvik7 - 2010-04-03
Kotoeri isn't very good at giving correct suggestions compared to Google IME.
[] will give you 【】, just keep pressing space.
The trackpad recognition isn't part of kotoeri btw.
How to type【 】via Mac's kotoeri? - xaarg - 2010-04-03
Jarvik7 Wrote:I recommend switching to the Google IME or ATOK though.Unfortunately ATOK is only free for 30 days and I don't know where to find cracks for Japanese software.
How to type【 】via Mac's kotoeri? - Jarvik7 - 2010-04-03
Google IME is free and almost as good (just lacks the dictionary function and grammar correction), or you could always pay for ATOK.
How to type【 】via Mac's kotoeri? - gfb345 - 2010-04-03
Thank you all for your replies! After reading Blahah's I realize that I still have a lot to learn about Mac's kotoeri 【beyond this question about brackets, that is】. For one thing, I used the Mac's Keyboard Viewer to find the values of keys under kotoeri. It turns out that this viewer does not apply to kotoeri mode, which, in hindsight, I should have suspected to begin with.
I was not able to find a keyboard layout for the Mac's kotoeri mode, at least not one published within the last 10 years at site:apple.com. If anyone knows of one ("official" or not), please let me know.
Also, thanks for the Google IME and ATOK pointers. I did not know about them. I'll check them out.
How to type【 】via Mac's kotoeri? - Blahah - 2010-04-03
Sounds like Google IME is worth a try. And yes I forgot the trackpad handwriting was separate to kotoeri.
OP I haven't seen a keyboard map, I just experimented with the keyboard until I knew my way around. It's fairly trivial to do this. Bear in mind you can modify any key with shift, alt or both.