Switch language by keyboard shortcut

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Windows XP Japanese Input
http://greggman.com/japan/xp-ime/xp-ime.htm

(Select "Switch between input languages" and pick "Change Key Sequence..." )

What is an IME (Input Method Editor) and how do I use it?
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev [...] Paper.mspx

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Carey Frisch
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"lee" wrote:

| Hi,
|
| I've installed the Japanese input method so I could type Japanese in my
| email.
|
| My emails are always a mix of English and Japanese, so I need to switch back
| and forth both language usually. My trouble is every time I switched to
| Japanese, it's default to inputting English, so I need to grab my mouse and
| change the input mode to Hiragana before I could type Japanese. I had
| changed the default input mode to Hiragana but it still start from the
| English (Romanji) input mode.
|
| I know how to switch from English to Japanese by pressing Alt + Shift, but
| once I'm in Japanese, does someone knows how to change the input mode from
| Romanji to Hiragana?
|
| Thanks.

K, I found one solution that hopefully can help in the majority of cases.

http://forum.japantoday.com/viewto [...] 0&t=930296

Essentially once the Japanese keyboard is selected (through Alt-Shift, e.g.) you can change the input mode to hiragana by pressing Ctrl-CapsLock. That just goes TO hiragana; i.e. it's not a toggle. And through experimentation I just found that Alt-CapsLock goes to katakana.

...but this guy knew that already:

http://forum.soft32.com/win4/chang [...] 17168.html

And he says that Shift-CapsLock goes to half-width alphanumeric. I found if you do that, and then Alt-CapsLock, you get half-width katakana. So the only mode left undiscovered is full-width alphanumeric, but that's ugly as heck anyway so who cares?

I was looking for this as well. It seems Alt+~ works once you're in Japanese mode. Just be careful if you have the stumbleupon toolbar...