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Third install of Ubuntu on 3rd machine. Never had an issue getting Japanese language (kana) input, but suddenly I can't find the settings I'm used to!

Trying to get Anthy installed, but it's not showing up in the Region & Language options. When searching for Japanese input sources, my options are:

  • Japanese
  • Japanese (Dvorak)
  • Japanese (Kana 86)
  • Japanese (Kana)
  • Japanese (Macintosh)
  • Japanese (OADG 109A)
  • Japanese (PC-98)

Installing Japanese and Japanese (Kana) has given me the option to select them in my input methods, but input remains English.

Where can I find the settings/files to input text in Japanese kana?

This question can be considered a precursor to the solutions provided in this related question:

Enabling/installing Japanese input

Pinkie B
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    1. Install the `ibus-anthy` package, 2. Relogin – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Aug 29 '19 at 15:42
  • https://askubuntu.com/questions/1053157/japanese-default-input-mode/1053767#1053767, during this setting, open configuration panel and set the input mode to Kana from Romaji. You can install ibus-anthy (Gunner's suggestion)or fcitx-anthy instead of fcitx-mozc, but I am not sure it works perfectly as fcitx-mozc does. – Sadaharu Wakisaka Aug 29 '19 at 22:31
  • @GunnarHjalmarsson, would that be via `sudo apt-get install ibus-anthy`? @SadaharuWakisaka, are you recommending an alternative package to anthy? Can you give me more details because I do not understand what you are suggesting to do? – Pinkie B Aug 30 '19 at 14:51
  • @PinkieB: Yes. Then, when you have logged out and logged in again, you should see _Japanese (Anthy)_ among the input sources. The ones you listed above are XKB keyboard layouts, and indeed not sufficient for inputting Japanese. – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Aug 30 '19 at 15:50
  • @SadaharuWakisaka: My understanding is that the OP is on a standard Ubuntu machine, i.e. with the GNOME desktop, and in that case it's not likely that any Fcitx method works very well. – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Aug 30 '19 at 15:53
  • https://www.hiroom2.com/2018/04/29/ubuntu-1804-ibus-mozc-ja/ This is what people suggest, and for me, the native Japanese depends type smoothly with the wise converter. Anthy makes me slow down, while Mozc offers me a bunch of suggestions and TAB auto-complete like a bash assist is useful. Sometimes ibus doesn't offer me inline converting in some applications. https://www.karelie.net/install-ibus-mozc-1804/ This is a work-around to fix the bugs. I am fond of ibus than fcitx, but since 14.04 ibus v1.5 often broken and is not beautifully working as it used to be. – Sadaharu Wakisaka Aug 31 '19 at 23:12
  • I tried installing Mozc and now my ubuntu does not load. I get a black screen of death. Thanks for the comments but I will have to wait until I can unfreeze my system to try your suggestions. – Pinkie B Sep 08 '19 at 13:03

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After install the japanese language on a Gnome/Ubuntu 18.04:

  1. Install, at least one, IMF (ibus comes by default on Ubuntu):
    • sudo apt install ibus, and/or;
    • sudo apt install fcitx
  2. Install, at least one, japanese IME for your IMF:
    • if using ibus:
      • sudo apt install ibus-mozc, and/or;
      • sudo apt install ibus-anthy, and/or;
      • sudo apt install ibus-kkc, and/or;
      • sudo apt install ibus-skk.
    • if using fcitx:
      • sudo apt install fcitx-mozc, and/or;
      • sudo apt install fcitx-anthy, and/or;
      • sudo apt install fcitx-kkc, and/or;
      • sudo apt install fcitx-skk.

With that, select the input method (IME) from your language selector on icon tray (IMF).

  • the IMF (ibus) on Gnome Status Menu (is represented by a language icon selector).
  • all (my) selectable IMEs (portuguese, spanish, english, japanese-mozc, japanese-anthy, japanese-kkc, japanese-skk) from this IMF (ibus).

ibus menu and selectables IMEs

Or you can use the Gnome shortcut to fast-switch between IMEs: hold Super and press Space.

gnome menu shortcut to select IMEs

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