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Japanese Input Method User Guide
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Welcome
Use a Japanese input source
Set up the input source
Switch the input source
Edit and use your user dictionaries
Enter characters
Enter Japanese text
Enter characters using the Kana Table
Enter full-width or half-width numbers
Enter symbols
Change characters you entered
Use the candidate window
Enter words that aren’t in the candidate window
Type roman strings using hiragana or katakana
Roman characters and corresponding kana
Convert characters
Improve conversion accuracy
Convert hiragana numbers into other notations
Convert text using a punctuation mark
Insert and convert characters between characters
Reverse a conversion
Keyboard shortcuts
Change Japanese settings
Troubleshooting
If entering characters is slow or unresponsive
If rectangles or wrong characters are displayed
If characters are repeatedly displayed
If you can’t enter certain characters
Use the Ainu input source
Set up and switch to the Ainu input source
Look up roman/kana character correlation
Choose a sort order for lists in Japanese
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