Hi.

<1b546a6e.0405070107.33815039@posting.google.com>の記事において
avalenci@linuxcenter.com.mxさんは書きました。
> How can I configure a Japanes Keyboard in Debian (testing) with
> Xserver 3.3
> to write directly in Japanese and use all the special keys(as in
> windows) ?
> 
> I dont want to be typing : watashi , to get first わたし and then 私 ,
> Iwould like to be able to write directly わたし in hiragana 。。。。

Do you mean that you want to use "kana input" rather than
"roma-ji input" method?

Since XFree86 doesn't switch "Keyboard mode" between
english mode and japanese mode, there are no native-way to do it.
However, for clients using kinput2, there are
sort of "emulation" mode of kana-input.
Also, the way to do it depends on which kana-kanji conversion engine
you are using.

If you are using FreeWnn or Wnn6/7 engine from kinput2,
then you can setup kinput2 to use kana-input-like-method.
See these files below(and other files around in this directory).
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ccdef/rule.kana 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ccdef/rule.kana2
(path may depend on your system configuration)

You can copy and modify your own ccdef file to use the rules above,
and load it by running command below:
% /usr/X11R6/bin/kinput2 -ccdef my_ccdef &

If you are canna-engine user, I'm not familiar with it,
but canna itself had some kana-input emulation mode.
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