Japanese IME

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Japanese IME

On page 21 of the Users Guide, it says that iPhone supports Japanese IME and refers to page 98 on how to turn on language keyboard on. But, on the setup page ther are only English, English (UK), French, German and Italian.

Does anyone know if there is a patch or upgrade? The main I reason I invested in the iPhone was because of what I was led to believe in the manual which I downloaded from the apple.com site.

Thanks.

Dell Inspiron, Windows XP

Posted on Jan 22, 2008 11:03 PM

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Answer 1

Tom Gewecke

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Jan 23, 2008 5:21 AM in response to Leroy Lockwood

On page 21 of the Users Guide, it says that iPhone supports Japanese IME and refers to page 98 on how to turn on language keyboard on. But, on the setup page ther are only English, English (UK), French, German and Italian. Does anyone know if there is a patch or upgrade?

The actual iPhone has not yet caught up with what is described in the User Guide, no Japanese IME is available at this time. The iPod touch has had this since day one, so presumably it should be coming to the iPhone soon. You can tell Apple your views on this here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

A web app for Japanese email can be found here:

http://n.h7a.org/iphone/mail/

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Answer 2

Jan 23, 2008 6:36 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Tom,

Thank you for the info. Very helpful. I hope Apple includes it on the next update. Don't think it's ethical to state "supports the following formats ...". The web app is very useful.

Im new to iPhone. Can the app be installed on iPhone or does the site have to be accessed each time one needs to use it?

Thank you again.

Leroy

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Answer 3

kjk

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Jan 23, 2008 9:16 AM in response to Leroy Lockwood

Actually, if the japanese web page is correctly encoded, a japanese IME keyboard does come up for input.
http://www.iphoneatlas.com/2007/10/05/still-more-undocumented-111-features-mail- port-settings-japanese-keyboard-mode/

This of course doesn't help for Mail or SMS, but it shows that the IME keyboard is already in the iPhone. Its just not that useful yet for most of us 😝

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Answer 4

daihard

Level 1

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Jan 28, 2008 8:44 PM in response to kjk

I am another user who strongly wishes the iPhone had Japanese IME available for the Mail application. I'd break out of the current 2-year contract with Sprint right now to switch to an iPhone, had it been for the Japanese IME support on it.

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