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Third install of Ubuntu on 3rd machine. Never had an issue getting Japanese language (kana) input, but suddenly I can't find the settings I'm used to!

Trying to get Anthy installed, but it's not showing up in the Region & Language options. When searching for Japanese input sources, my options are:

  • Japanese
  • Japanese (Dvorak)
  • Japanese (Kana 86)
  • Japanese (Kana)
  • Japanese (Macintosh)
  • Japanese (OADG 109A)
  • Japanese (PC-98)

Installing Japanese and Japanese (Kana) has given me the option to select them in my input methods, but input remains English.

Where can I find the settings/files to input text in Japanese kana?

This question can be considered a precursor to the solutions provided in this related question:

Enabling/installing Japanese input

Pinkie B
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  • https://askubuntu.com/questions/1053157/japanese-default-input-mode/1053767#1053767, during this setting, open configuration panel and set the input mode to Kana from Romaji. You can install ibus-anthy (Gunner's suggestion)or fcitx-anthy instead of fcitx-mozc, but I am not sure it works perfectly as fcitx-mozc does. – Sadaharu Wakisaka Aug 29 '19 at 22:31
  • @GunnarHjalmarsson, would that be via sudo apt-get install ibus-anthy? @SadaharuWakisaka, are you recommending an alternative package to anthy? Can you give me more details because I do not understand what you are suggesting to do? – Pinkie B Aug 30 '19 at 14:51
  • @PinkieB: Yes. Then, when you have logged out and logged in again, you should see Japanese (Anthy) among the input sources. The ones you listed above are XKB keyboard layouts, and indeed not sufficient for inputting Japanese. – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Aug 30 '19 at 15:50
  • @SadaharuWakisaka: My understanding is that the OP is on a standard Ubuntu machine, i.e. with the GNOME desktop, and in that case it's not likely that any Fcitx method works very well. – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Aug 30 '19 at 15:53
  • https://www.hiroom2.com/2018/04/29/ubuntu-1804-ibus-mozc-ja/ This is what people suggest, and for me, the native Japanese depends type smoothly with the wise converter. Anthy makes me slow down, while Mozc offers me a bunch of suggestions and TAB auto-complete like a bash assist is useful. Sometimes ibus doesn't offer me inline converting in some applications. https://www.karelie.net/install-ibus-mozc-1804/ This is a work-around to fix the bugs. I am fond of ibus than fcitx, but since 14.04 ibus v1.5 often broken and is not beautifully working as it used to be. – Sadaharu Wakisaka Aug 31 '19 at 23:12
  • I tried installing Mozc and now my ubuntu does not load. I get a black screen of death. Thanks for the comments but I will have to wait until I can unfreeze my system to try your suggestions. – Pinkie B Sep 08 '19 at 13:03