Re: [PLUG] Japanese Keyboard, was UTF-8, Second Opinion

[Paul <gyoza@comcast.net>]

sean finney wrote:

> slightly ot of the original message, but eh...
>  
>
> iirc, the three input modes are hiragana, katakana, and romaji.  on a
> japanese keyboard there's a key for switching between the various modes.
> i believe the possible kanji are derived from the sequence of hiragana
> characters.
>  
How do you produce those tick marks that are used to change "ta" to "da" 
and those little circles used to change "ha" to "pa"?

> on my qwerty keyboard, i use a combination of locales + x input modifiers
> + non-8-bit terminals + kinput/canna to simulate having such a keyboard.
> i type the 1-3 character syllables and the appropriate
> hiragana/katakana/kanji/romaji text is output.
>  
Typing Kanji is more like typing Furigana; little Hiragana characters 
above or below the Kanji used to show it's pronunciation.

Can you type kana in an e-mail?

> i've got a mebius laptop--if you're interested i can send you a pic off
> list.
>
>  
doumo. shashin wo kudasai.  (Sorry, I can't be much more expressive, 
yet.)  ^_^

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