Japanese On Screen Keyboard

[Najla Ondik]

Ineed help getting a japanese keyboard . i would like to get the windows 8.1 touch keyboard as displayed below but no matter what i do i cant. i can make my touch keyboard write japanese by hitting the romaji keys that sound out the kana but im starting to notice its making me develop bad habits as welll as making it harder to read japanese fast because im still associating the romaji hence its a pain if someone can help id really appreciate it thanks.

will this make the virtual keyboard show hiragana like a japanese keyboard. (i ask because i disonnected my keyboard. im a quadriplegic so i have no use for a physical keyboard) if i do plug in my keyboard its an english one so how would i go about getting the touch version to be japanese even though the usb one is english

the links didnt work for me but they gave me an idea. so i took off everything english on my pc keyboards language packs and IME`s then restarted and added english language pack back took off its standard us touch pad and made it japanese then restarted and now i got both.seems like windows has a bug that isnt picking up the japanese virtual keyboard from the IME. thanks for the help everyone much appreciated

Try Gnome On-Screen Keyboard (gok), it has the ability to specify custom keyboard layouts via an XML file. Unfortunately the XML format is not documented well, and a GUI editor does not exist yet. I can't find any other on-screen keyboards that offer this though.

Update: Re the default Ubuntu on-screen keyboard 'onboard', see if this thread is of any help. The last post says that persian and arabic are pretty close, perhaps that translation could be the base for your custom layout. place the file in /home/user/.sok/layouts and choose it in onboard-settings.

This is a two step process. First add Persian to the list of languages that you want to use and then turn on on-screen keyboard.To type Persian you need to add the Persian language to the list of languages that you want to be able to use on Ubuntu. Then you can switch between them. To add a language go to your Ubuntu settings, and search for language, you will see the "Region & Language" section. Within the section you will see the "Input Sources". Under the "Input Sources" is all your installed languages along with a plus sign. Click on the Plus sign and choose Persian to add it to your list of languages that you want to use.To see the keyboard on screen open the Ubuntu settings and search for the word "access". You will see the section "Universal Access". Click on it and the page will open. Under the section "Typing" select on-screen keyboard. Now every-time you need to type the on-screen keyboard will appear in any language that you are using. You can easily change between your list of languages be clicking on the top right hand corner of your screen where it shows the currently chosen language. When you change the language that you are4 using the on-screen keyboard changes to that language's keyboard also.

my hardware keyboard layout is italian but I frequently need to write in japanese so I installed japanese language along with japanese IME input mode. But for the life of me I cannot get the hardware keyboard to type japanese characters. Japanese IME activates, the A for the romaji input shows up, and that's it. I cannot switch to the katakana or hiragana input.

I solved by installing ATOK2015 input method. This is a proprietary application that serves as an alternative to Windows Japanese IME. Then by chance I set the system locale to Japanese and Windows IME started working too. Anyway now I am using (the much better) ATOK so I don't care anymore.

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As I understand you are able to type in Japanese using both the katakana and hiragana input using the touch keyboard but not using the keypad and here's what you could do:

This is a one-time setup procedure. Once completed, you will be able to switch between your local default keyboard (En / English for example) and the Greek Polytonic keyboard with just a simple keystroke. For example: the [Left-Alt] + [Shift] key combo. This all begins by clicking the Start button.

This will display the "Text Services and Input Languages" panel. From the "General" tab located at the top of this panel, your current default keyboard layout will be listed in the "Installed services" list. In this example, it is the EN English (United States) keyboard. Yours may differ based on your country and region. You will then click the [Add] button to bring up the next panel.

From the "Add Input Language" panel, scroll down until you locate the [+]Greek (Greece) item. Click the [+] and then click the [+] keyboard until you locate the checkbox for the Greek Polytonic item. This is the keyboard option that will allow you to type in full Greek with all accent and breathing marks incorporated as you type. Place a check in the checkbox next to the option. See note below about the [Preview...] button. Click the [OK] button when complete.

NOTE: The [Preview...] button in the above panel will display the "Keyboard Layout Preview" panel with the name "Layout Name: Greek Polytonic". This is basically a worthless panel other than to verify visually this one time and you have selected the correct option. If you have opened this panel, click the [Close] button and then click [OK] in the "Add Input Language" panel above.

Now select the "Language Bar" tab at the top of the "Text Services and Input Languages" panel. The language bar is a small window that can be set as listed below and will indicate which keyboard and language are currently active. I have it setup in this example to be "Docked in the taskbar" which allows me to display in on-screen as a floating option or return it to the taskbar when not needed. You can return to this step to change it as needed. The other options should be set as indicated in the checkboxes until you have worked with the Language Bar for a while and have a feel for how it behaves. Click the [Apply] button when selections are complete.

Select the "Advanced Key Settings" tab located at the top of the "Text Services and Input Languages" panel. This is where you configure the keystrokes that will allow you to switch between the language layouts. The "To turn off Caps Lock" option in this panel need not be changed since the Greek Polytonic keyboard does not behave differently between upper and lower case typing. The "Hot keys for input languages" option is where the hot key sequence is established. In this setup procedure, I shall set up a single keystroke combo to toggle between the EN and EL languages each time the sequence is pressed. Separate keystrokes can be configured to select directly the language invoked. Here click the [Change Key Sequence...] button to display the next panel in this step:

All that is needed on the "Change Key Sequence" panel is to select the Left Alt + Shift radio button. This will become the keystroke that will toggle the Input Language between EN and EL and back again. The "Switch Keyboard Layout" can be set to "Not Assigned" since changing the Language to EL or back to EN will automatically configure the keyboard layout. Unless you wish/need to have multiple Greek or English keyboards (ex: US English QWERTY and Dvorak keyboards) you need not change this setting. Click the [OK] button when selection is completed to return.

You are now returned to the "Advanced Key Settings" tab. Verify that your keystroke combination is displayed on this list. If everything looks good, click the [Apply] button. Congratulations! You have completed the setup and are now ready to begin typing in Greek and English (or whatever your default language is...). Just click the [OK] button to close this panel and then click the [OK] button on the "Regional and Language Options" panel.

You will now see the EN Language Bar in the taskbar area (usually the lower right corner) of your Desktop screen. Click the "Restore" option to display the full Language Bar on the desktop work area. Practice pressing the Left Alt + Shift keys and watch the Language Bar switch back and forth. See examples below:

In this example, we see that WordPad is loaded on the Desktop and the font is set to Arial 10 Western. A line of text has been typed. When the Left Alt + Shift key is depressed, the example below is activated.

Here we see that the EL Greek (Greece) layout is now active. The font is still Arial (I've increased the font size to 20) and the language is now Greek. Not all programs will display this information as you type, but the floating Language Bar will always indicate which language / keyboard is currently active. If you wish to close the Language Bar and return it to the taskbar area, just click the "Minimize" option on the upper right corner area of the Language Bar. If you switch to a program (example: Solitaire) that does not accept typed input, the Language Bar will return to the taskbar automatically.

I thank you very much for the quick answer. The proposed procedure is somewhat different from the one you have to follow in windows 10. Anyway I had already followed it when I installed the Japanese IME.

According to my research the above was supposed to fix the issue with the keypad and enable it to work just as your onscreen keyboard works, however, since it isn't I would recommend you to install any updates available for your keypad drivers, if unavailable you may rollback to the previous update and reset the above settings to resolve the issue.

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