Typing Japanese Kanji characters on my Mac Book Pro OS X 10.6.8

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Typing Japanese Kanji characters on my Mac Book Pro OS X 10.6.8

I ma trying to type in Japanese with Chinese characters...Kanji...and am having trouble setting it up via the System Preferences - Input Sources ...s I have told to turn off the turn off the "Predictive candidates" and "Live Conversion" options...but i don't see them on my compute when I select Input

sources.

Simply put...I want to type the Kanji by imputing the hiragana..being shown the kanji options...then selecting that appropriate Kanji...as I did when I was living in Japan!!

thank you!

John

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on May 9, 2016 1:14 PM

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Answer 1

Tom Gewecke

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May 9, 2016 1:27 PM in response to jhfrankl

Your OS 10.6.8 is really old, most people are not going to be able to tell you the exact steps.

Did you find the Input Sources tab in System Prefs/Language and Text (or Language and Region) and check the box for Kotoeri/Hiragana ?

Do you see the "flag" menu at the top right of the screen, and have you clicked on it to select Hiragana?

If all that is OK, what happens when you type "nihongo"?

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jhfrankl Author

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May 9, 2016 1:37 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

I kinda just figured it out...if I type in "aki" for Autumn...the hiragana comes up...if I then manually go into the language flag and select "reverse conversion" it will show me the various kanji for that hiragana. It is slow tho.

When I was in Japan there was an automatic showing of all the options for the hiragana types to show all the options for Chinese characters alongside where i was typing int he document and you could simply quickly select that Kanji.

I am not typing that much so I can just simply go into the flag area and select the reverse conversion option.

Unless you know a way to do it the way I did in Japan???

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Answer 3

Tom Gewecke

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May 9, 2016 1:51 PM in response to jhfrankl

Try hitting the space bar.

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Answer 4

jhfrankl Author

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May 9, 2016 3:10 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

Thanks so much Tom...when I type aki...it does show the right character by chance the first time when hitting the space bar...and if i want other suggestions I just hit the space bar a second time. Big help!! Thanks again Tom!!

John

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Answer 5

Tom Gewecke

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May 9, 2016 4:08 PM in response to jhfrankl

You may find this site useful too

http://redcocoon.org/cab/j4mactyping.html

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