canundrum69
July 9th, 2011, 05:19 AM
I have been a Windows User since the stone ages.
In recent years I have decided that my newest hobby would be to try and learn a new language. (Japanese was the lucky pick).
Windows has a wonderful tool built in that helps me greatly with My Character recognition (Hiragana, Katakana etc.) as well as converting my choppy americanized Romaji into Kanji etc.
When Activeated the Microsoft Language Bar allows me, with a simple keystroke to switch the input of whichever text editor I am in to Japanese allowing me to type in romanized characters from my keyboard and translating the input to Kana
so arigato becomes ありがと
I am wondering if something like this exists for Ubuntu or can be easily installed.
The thing I am most concerned about is ease of use that it can be applied in one window but doesn't take over all of my running apps and programs while it is active.
Thanks in advance for any help or information.
In recent years I have decided that my newest hobby would be to try and learn a new language. (Japanese was the lucky pick).
Windows has a wonderful tool built in that helps me greatly with My Character recognition (Hiragana, Katakana etc.) as well as converting my choppy americanized Romaji into Kanji etc.
When Activeated the Microsoft Language Bar allows me, with a simple keystroke to switch the input of whichever text editor I am in to Japanese allowing me to type in romanized characters from my keyboard and translating the input to Kana
so arigato becomes ありがと
I am wondering if something like this exists for Ubuntu or can be easily installed.
The thing I am most concerned about is ease of use that it can be applied in one window but doesn't take over all of my running apps and programs while it is active.
Thanks in advance for any help or information.