Hotkey for switching between Kotoeri Romaji and Kana input?

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Hotkey for switching between Kotoeri Romaji and Kana input?

I have a Macbook Pro with a JIS Keyboard (English characters with Kana on the bottom right) and the Eisuu (英数）and kana (かな） keys. I can easily switch from english romaji to japanese kana with one keypress each, but does anyone know a hotkey that would let my switch between romaji-kana typing (a=あ）and kana typing (a=ち）? I looked in the system help for Kotoeri and it said Shift-Kana key, but that didn't work. Thanks!

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2), Windows 7 Home Premium x64 Bootcamp

Posted on Nov 9, 2011 7:39 AM

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Evanjs Author

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Dec 9, 2011 11:08 AM in response to Evanjs

Going to bump this once, recommending to Apple as well.

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Apr 10, 2013 10:01 AM in response to Evanjs

I'm having what I think is the same problem. On the virtual keyboard--on my iPad screen or on the iPhone--it gives you a key with a globe symbol which allows you to switch between the various keyboard languages I have selected. In my case, it allows me to switch between English, Japanese using QWERTY, and a kana layout on screen. But the wireless keyboard doesn't have that globe key, so I'm wondering how I switch keyboard language layouts without having to turn off the wireless keyboard, make the change on screen, and then turn the wireless keyboard back on.

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Tom Gewecke

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Apr 10, 2013 10:49 AM in response to John P Thiel

John P Thiel wrote:

But the wireless keyboard doesn't have that globe key, so I'm wondering how I switch keyboard language layouts

You should be able to use the standard Apple keyboard shortcut for keyboard switching, command plus space.

In the future, for questions about your ipad/iphone, best start a new question in their own forum rather than tacking it onto a 2 year old thread in the forum for laptops.

https://discussions.apple.com/community/ipad/using_ipad

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