So, you want to type in Kanji and Kana on your iPhone... If vi and a bash shell are totally foreign to you, jump to this page If you are command line (and vi) -friendly: 1. Jailbreak your iPhone, and install the following packages - BSD Subsystem Term-vt100 Erica’s Utilities (be sure to edit your path to include /var/root/bin) 2. Fire up the terminal app on your phone and... cd ~/Library/Preferences plutil -c xml1 .GlobalPreferences.plist vi .GlobalPreferences.plist 3. Find the following text: <array> <string>en US</string> </array> ...and edit it to add a line so it looks like this: <array> <string>en US</string> <string>ja</string> </array> Save and close the Terminal app. When you visit any application that uses a keyboard now, there will be a globe next to the ‘123’ characters key. Selecting this will alternate between your US and Japanese keyboards. The Japanese keyboard is pretty easy to distinguish, because it is compressed to make room for a kanji/kana suggestion field, and has a long hyphen to the right of the ‘L’ key. Needless to say, if you find these instructions helpful and I have earned any of your gratitude, I’d appreciate if you would look at the adverts on this page and click on any that interest you. If you need any assistance, or have feedback, please email me at the address below. English only please, as my skill with Japanese is very poor.

If vi and a bash shell are totally foreign to you, jump to this page

If you are command line (and vi) -friendly:

1. Jailbreak your iPhone, and install the following packages -

• BSD Subsystem
• Term-vt100
• Erica’s Utilities (be sure to edit your path to include /var/root/bin)

2. Fire up the terminal app on your phone and...

cd ~/Library/Preferences

plutil -c xml1 .GlobalPreferences.plist

vi .GlobalPreferences.plist

3. Find the following text:

<array>

</array>

...and edit it to add a line so it looks like this:

<array>

</array>

4. Save and close the Terminal app.

When you visit any application that uses a keyboard now, there will be a globe next to the ‘123’ characters key. Selecting this will alternate between your US and Japanese keyboards. The Japanese keyboard is pretty easy to distinguish, because it is compressed to make room for a kanji/kana suggestion field, and has a long hyphen to the right of the ‘L’ key.

Needless to say, if you find these instructions helpful and I have earned any of your gratitude, I’d appreciate if you would look at the adverts on this page and click on any that interest you. If you need any assistance, or have feedback, please email me at the address below. English only please, as my skill with Japanese is very poor.

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