I used a small japanese mobile hiragana table on my desktop to type a few words occasionally. it had been there for over a year. the last update killed it and I cannot find it again.how do I restore it on my desktop

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I used a small japanese mobile hiragana table on my desktop to type a few words occasionally. it had been there for over a year. the last update killed it and I cannot find it again.how do I restore it on my desktop

How do I restore a small hiragana/katakana table that was on my desktop until the last update killed it and I cannot find it again. I used my standard keyboard ( not japanese) but I could type a few words using that hiragana table. I don't want to use the full japanese keyboard, just that small table was super. now it's gone

Posted on Dec 20, 2021 7:50 PM

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Tom Gewecke

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Dec 20, 2021 8:09 PM in response to Airless88

What is your Mac OS version? (Apple > About this Mac)

For Monterey, see

https://support.apple.com/guide/japanese-input-method/enter-characters-using-the-kana-table-jpim10233/6.3/mac/12.0

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Tom Gewecke

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Dec 21, 2021 9:31 AM in response to Airless88

Airless88 wrote: here is what I get when I select japanese

You are looking in the wrong place. Forget about the keyboard preferences pane.

Instead go to the top right corner of your screen where the "flag" menu is and select Japanese there. You should see something like I already posted (with less keyboards perhaps), which I post again below. If yours is different, please post picture of it.

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Dec 21, 2021 9:07 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

here is what I get when I select japanese on the IM.

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Airless88 Author

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Dec 21, 2021 9:41 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Bingo!!!

Tracked it properly this time. thanks a million. the table is now on my desktop for good.

all the best for the holidays and New Year.

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Dec 21, 2021 7:02 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Thanks for the prompt answer. I use Monterey12.0.1 onmy iMac Retina4k. I think that upgrading the OS to Monterey got rid of my Japanese table: it looked like an icon that I could move on my desktop, giving me hiragana/katakana at will. using my usual canadian/french input source, I would type the japanese character and it would show in the text, without having to change input source. it was extremely convenient. I don't want to switch to a full japanese keyboard ( or even the keyboard viewer), as my apple keyboard is already overwritten to show russian cyrillic when needed.

I really miss that small japanese table ( used it for the last 2 more years) but can't remember how I got hold of it.

Thanks for the help.

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Tom Gewecke

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Dec 21, 2021 7:50 AM in response to Airless88

Please try again. I have no problem at all doing this in 12.1 just like in al previous versions. You have to activate the Japanese IM just to get it started, but then it will stay on the screen and be usable when other keyboards are used. Pictures below. Is this really missing from your machine?

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Airless88 Author

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Dec 21, 2021 8:37 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

this is exactly the table I need.but I don't seem to have the ""Type using kana table"" that I see on your screen shot.

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I used a small japanese mobile hiragana table on my desktop to type a few words occasionally. it had been there for over a year. the last update killed it and I cannot find it again.how do I restore it on my desktop

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