[Interest] Qt japanese onscreen keyboard

[Harri Pasanen]

As others have mentioned, japanese kanji input is a hard problem, it is 
not just an image with buttons what you might think of when you hear 
"virtual keyboard"

Basically you type one kana and have several kanji to choose from, and 
the list of kanji to choose from changes depending the context.

Just my 2 cents,

Harri

On 16/01/2015 14:16, Bo Thorsen wrote:
> I obviously already told them about this, Tuukka. But the virtual
> keyboard is not available for Windows and they have been using the LPGL
> version for 10 years and won't change this decision.
>
> Bo.
>
> Den 16-01-2015 kl. 14:05 skrev Turunen Tuukka:
>> Hi,
>>
>> There already is an excellent virtual keyboard for Qt, please see:
>> http://doc.qt.io/QtVirtualKeyboard/index.html
>>
>> This is part of the commercial offering, intended for device creation.
>>
>> As announced at the Qt Developer Days support for Japanese and Korean
>> languages will be added to it. There already are many other languages
>> supported, check the link for a full list.
>>
>> If you want to check it out, you can take the current version for a spin:
>> http://www.qt.io/download/ (select Free 30-day Trial and then Qt for
>> Device Creation from the drop down menu).
>>
>> Yours,
>>
>> Tuukka Turunen
>> Director, R&D
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> On 16/01/15 14:53, "Alejandro Exojo" <suy at badopi.org> wrote:
>>
>>> El Friday 16 January 2015, Bo Thorsen escribió:
>>>> If not, then we'll show the normal ascii chars and do a conversion with
>>>> the input. As I understand it, this is what the mobile world does?
>>>> Setting the locale on a line edit to japanese and sending key events
>>>> doesn't seem to give me any Japanese chars.
>>> It's a bit complex. The Japanese language, as far as I know, seems to
>>> always
>>> require an input system. Either they type "romaji" (characters in the
>>> roman
>>> alphabet), and a certain UI allows you to choose between different
>>> possibilites, or they type kana (the sillabary).
>>>
>>> For example, I typed Japanese in Japanese, "nihongo", and I was offered "日
>>> 本語"
>>> which is kanji or "にほんご" which is the same in kana. There are thousands
>>> or
>>> kanji, but only about 50 kana (actually, in two versions, but that's
>>> another
>>> story). That means that natives might prefer to type kana, which is what
>>> they
>>> learn as children, but foreigners might want the romanized version of the
>>> word.
>>>
>>>> Did someone here already implement this? Any pointers? I have done a
>>>> google search for this, but nothing useful came up. I hope you guys can
>>>> help.
>>> What constraints there are? For Linux the tipical solution is Maliit, but
>>> how
>>> well the japanese plugin works is an unkown. The website seems a bit
>>> broken. I
>>> think it heavily used D-Bus, but I saw some post about Windows support.
>>>
>>> http://web.archive.org/web/20131218195654/https://wiki.maliit.org/Main_Pag
>>> e
>>> https://web.archive.org/web/20130606035734/https://wiki.maliit.org/Documen
>>> tation/Installing#From_source_code_.28Windows.29
>>> https://code.google.com/p/maliit-plugin-jp/
>>> https://gitorious.org/maliit-plugin-jp
>>>
>>> Good luck!
>>>
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