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Hey guys, I need some help.
When I added Japanese to my keyboards on my PC, I chose the Microsoft IME option. Pretty sure thats how most people type Japanese on the PC.
Now, my problem is, whenever I type something, a dashed line appears below my text. What I understand is it some sort of conversion mode to turn lets say Hiragana into Kanji and it can be activated via Space.
How the heck do I disable it? I dont want to press enter after every word I type in Japanese. It forces me to press either enter or escape to exit that mode so I can continue using keys like Space or Enter normally.
Anyone have any idea?
You have to hit enter at the end of each word. Just the way it is.
Surely theres a way to disable it. Just like I dont have to hit enter after every word in English. =[
If you disabled it, you’d never be able to type in kanji. You’re just going to have to get used to typing a slightly different way.
Japanese doesn’t really use spaces, anyway.
Japanese don’t write everything in Hiragana and Katakana, a large portion of the text is in Kanji. So unless you are writing standard phrases that everyone is familiar with, it will be hard for anyone to understand what you are writing, as Joel said, you aren’t supposed to use spaces. Without Kanji added it becomes really difficult to tell where one word ends and another begins.
I believe Koichi explains this in TF around the time he points out how to install the IME. By disabling it (I wouldn’t know how to in any case), you will have to start putting spaces between your words to be understood. This looks bad to others who know how Japanese is supposed to be written and it creates bad habits for you. As once you start learning Kanji, you are going to have to get used to hitting enter anyway, and it’s going to be harder to do, as you’ve already trained yourself in a different, incorrect way of doing it.
We don’t have to do this in English because we don’t have three different sets of characters that we use.
If you think about it like hitting space after each word in English, it really isn’t that big a deal, and it will become natural with practice.
Understood. Thank you for your help. ^^
Also I use to type everyting in hiragana and katakana, so I keep typing and pressing enter is not too bad. By they way pressing alt+shift changes from jp to english (shorcuts become a need after some time).
regards
You don’t have to press Enter after *every* word: you can type several, then Space to kanjify, then Enter. If any of the kanji it predicted were wrong, you can change them before you press Enter, I think.
Yeah that’s right.
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