Hi there. I got started with Heisigs method just recently, after more than 3 years of studying Japanese. One reason I was reluctant to use RTK was the inability to type Kanji, despite knowing them.
A really trivial solution is simply an IME: You type Heisigs keyword, press Shift+Space, and get a Kanji. It's so simple that I'm probably not the first who thought of this.

Anyways, I made a dictionary file for the Japanese Windows IME: http://learn_japanese.php0h.com/wp-conte...sigIME.dic

Works great for me, and maybe someone can use it.

edit: some notes on the renaming are here: http://learn_japanese.php0h.com/?p=195

edit: Made a wiki page: http://rtkwiki.koohii.com/wiki/Heisig_IME

Hello,

I'm not quite sure if I'm following you, maybe my brain just doesn't work right now. What do you mean by "inability to type Kanji", and what does that have to do with using RTK?

ThomasB Wrote:Hello,

I'm not quite sure if I'm following you, maybe my brain just doesn't work right now. What do you mean by "inability to type Kanji", and what does that have to do with using RTK?

I presume OP is talking about not knowing the pronunciation of a kanji, and so being unable to produce it using a normal IME. This solution allows you to type any kanji in RTK using its keyword instead of the pronunciation.

Nice work Chaze.

Blahah got it right. Typing kanji this way is a temparary solution. I'm in the middle of learning Japanese, and sometimes encounter words with kanji i know the keywords of, but no readings. It's just a convenient way for looking stuff up.

Pretty cool! Instead of cloze deletion, it's chaze completion. ;p

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That's pretty cool. As far as I can remember, nobody has posted here before a custom file for the Windows IME. Now I wish there was something similar for the OSX IME.

ファブリス: Here's a simple a wordlist (generated from your database ):
http://learn_japanese.php0h.com/wp-conte...sigIME.txt
This can be imported into Google's IME which runs on all OSs and might be an option. However, I doubt it's much more complicated with the OSX IME.

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Chaze, thank you. If you want to archive this, you could add a page into the Wiki (requires to register there, I recommend to use same username):

http://rtkwiki.koohii.com/wiki/Main_Page

Cool, I posted a similar idea when I first joined here but I couldn't get the Windows IME to convert all romaji text to kanji so I gave up. How did you solve that problem?

I later realized that it wouldn't be as useful as I had hoped it would (keywords became vague in my head as they were being replaced by Japanese knowledge), but it's still cool that you managed to do it.

Codexus Wrote:couldn't get the Windows IME to convert all romaji text to kanji so I gave up. How did you solve that problem?

This might not be obvious at first, you need to switch to Full-Width Alphanumeric mode for that, and instead of just space, you need to hit Shift-Space for conversion (keywords contain spaces). This goes for Windows as well as Google IME.

I'll probably put that in the wiki later, right now I barely have the time for reviews

Made an entry in the wiki
@ファブリス: Can I somehow upload different files than images there? This free hosting isn't a really persistent place.

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Thank you, I added a link under "Software" on the wiki home page.

I've quickly edited the wiki config file and added "txt" and "zip" (eg .dic.zip), but I don't know if it will work as my time is very limited to test this throughly in the following days.

If it doesn't work consider uploading to Google Documents if you already have a google account, this should be more resilient (I dont know if this will work for the dic file though).