I can't get Japanese fonts to work

[Standard_Mixture]

I have been trying to get Japanese fonts to work, in order to help with my foreign language study. I will be primarily using English on this computer but I want the ability to switch to Japanese input. In the past I have been able to accomplish this on Linux installations but this time it doesn’t seem to be working.

I have installed fcitx-5 (I think it installed fcitx5-qt, and later I installed fcitx5-gtk). At first I had mozc installed but just now I’ve tried fcitx5-mozc instead.

Configuring Fcitx-5 I added a couple Japanese layouts. Sometimes I could not select any layouts, but when I can the layout only changes a bit. For example, the apostrophe key becomes a colon instead, and the tilde is no longer available, but the letters come out like normal. Like this other guy in this thread says, I want to type “hi” and get ひ.

Japanese Input Method Does Not Work

Hello. I’ve been trying to get a Japanese Input Method to work but none of the threads or posts I’ve read seem to work. To be specific, I am looking for a layout that when I type “hi”, it switches to ひ. 5.10.30-1-MANJARO KDE 5.21.4 These are the relevant (I think…) packages I installed. fcitx 4.2.9.8-1 fcitx-configtool 0.4.10-4 fcitx-mozc 2.26.4220.102.g1882e33-1 fcitx-qt5 1.2.6-1 kcm-fcitx 0.5.6-1 otf-ipafont 003.03-8 Now I have “Input Method” in my system tray. However, it is stuck on my …

[philm]

Take a look here: Localization/Japanese - ArchWiki

[Standard_Mixture]

I have not been installing any fonts. Should I just go about installing a few font packages? The thing is, I can copy and paste Japanese fonts from an online dictionary into a spreadsheet no problem. Doesn’t this indicate that the fonts exist on my machine already?

[Standard_Mixture]

Alright, good news: I got it working by adding ‘mozc’ as an input method in Fcitx5.

Linux is like a magic.

皆さんありがとう！