Japanese Input on Mandrake Linux
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Howto: Japanese Input on Linux

1) Installation Reminder to run Japanese Input on Linux
2) Input keystroke,  Use of Kinput2 , Japanese input on Mandrake Linux - You are Here

* Part 2  - Japanese input method on Linux *

[Key Name] ---- Press the key
[A](key)[B] ---- Press A and B together
A + B ---- Press  A and B together
Ctrl ---- Control
^ --- control
^A --- Press Control and A together

--------- Control Kanji and Start Japanese Input Mode --------

 Shift+Space    Start Japanese Input

CAPSLOCK     Temporarily switch to upper case ASCII input
                      [Caps Lock]  HOWAREYOU

Ctrl + \           Turn off japanese input ( key | is the location of where the key \ is )

Ctrl + q      Temporarily switch to ASCII mode ：^q abcdefg
                 PS: If you press on [Enter] after typing abcdefg, it will be back to japanese input.

Ctrl + g      Back to Japanese Input Mode : ^g

--------- Conversion and Basic Selection  ----------------------


Space Bar    Start listing kanji candidate each time you type space bar :
For example : you type tsukeru
tsukeru spacebar

Everytime you press on space bar, you will see the next candidate (kanji)             

Ctrl + n   Select next candidate (kanji)

Ctrl + p   Select the previous candidate (kanji)
               
E.g. hana hiragana [Space Bar] ,  

              Press ^n 
              The 1st kanji candidate is hana kanji flower,
                           
              and then press ^n
              The next candidate is hana kanji hanashi
              
              and then press ^n
              The next candidate is hana kanji 3

              Press ^p if you want to select the previous candidate
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(Note that, the priority of the appearance of candidates is varied according to the
frequency of kanji selection (how often do you select the candidate).

In other words :
If you have been selecting the (kanji) candidate hana kanji flower frequently or most recently,
hana kanji flowermight be the first kanji candidate which hana hiragana convert into.)

             



--------- Moving Cursor and Control in Selection Window -------------
            
Ctrl + w      Start conversion to Kanji: [Ctrl](key)[w]

If  ^w   for twice, the candidate selection window will show up
tanoshii 
[Ctrl](key)[w]
[Ctrl](key)[w]

ctrl w

Afterwards, press [Space Bar] to switch to next candidate, press on [Enter] twice to confirm the selection of kanji candidate.

The Candidate Selection Window would not show up if you only use [space bar] to select the Kanji. If you press on ^w for twice,
the Candidate Selection Window will show up :
tsukeru

hana hiragana and press on  ^w  twice <-- open the selection window
hana select

Ctrl + f   Moves the cursor forward in selection mode

Ctrl + b   Move the cursor backward in selection mode 

Ctrl + e   Move the cursor to right end in selection mode

Ctrl + a   Moves the cursor to left end in selection mode
For example  [Ctrl](key)[f] to move cursor forward :

Ctrl-f
For example : ukeru
[space bar]
  ^f
[space bar]

Selection Window will then appears and
NOW you may press ^f  to move the cursor forward :





Or simply press on ^w   twice to open the selection window

Ctrl-b
For Example :  ^b  to move the cursor backward.          
                            



Ctrl-e
Move the cursor to the most right end
control e

Ctrl-a
Move the cursor to the most left end
control a


--------- Increase/Shorten the Parsed Area -------------

Ctrl + i     Shorten the parsed area by 1 character in conversion mode
                
               If you press on ^i , the parsed area will be shorted by 1
                 
udedokei hiragana  [space bar]
If you press on space bar for twice, the text will become udedokei kanji

NOW you want to shorten the parsed area by 1 :

udedokei hiragana  [space bar]  
Press on ^i 1st time: udedokei 4 prased character
Only the part of  udedoke are parsed area, the part of  would NOT be changed even you press on [space bar].
                
Press on ^i 2nd time: udedo parse
Only the part of udedo parse  are parsed area, the part of  kei  would NOT be changed even you press on [space bar].
                
Press on ^i 3rd time: ude parse
Only the part of ude parse are parsed area, the part of dokei（dokei kanji） would NOT be changed even you press on [space bar]
  
    
   
                 
Ctrl + o   Increase the parsed area by 1 character in conversion mode
For example, the following word udedokei hiragana( the parsed area was shorten by 2 earlier/before ). And now the parsed area of the following word is 3 ( the first 3 character):

NOW you want to increase the parsed area by 1 :
udedo parse
Press on ^o 1st time: udedokei 4 prased character
Only the part of  udedoke are parsed area now (it means the part of  would NOT be changed even you press on [space bar]).

Press on ^o  2nd time: udedokei
All are parsed area. When you press on [space bar] you probably will see the apperance of kanji candidate udedokei whole text
                
 



--------- Special Katakana Input ------------------------------

 x + <a katakana or a hiragana>   Smaller size of certain special katakana text

For example:
Typing  party katakana in japanese katakana input
In order to make the  i normal size smaller.
you may type x in front of  i
then i normal size will become i smaller size


Reference of Japanese kinput2 : http://www.mozilla.org/quality/intl/kinput2/kinput2keys.html