Blackberry 9000 Japanese typing input method, About typing in Japanese, Type text in Japanese

User Guide Typing

• To type the second letter on a key, press the letter key twice.

Japanese typing input method

About typing in Japanese

If your BlackBerry® Device Software supports Japanese, you can type in Japanese using the Romanji input method. To facilitate typing in Japanese, your BlackBerry device is designed to support word completion and next word prediction. As you type Hiragana, a list of possible Hiragana and Kanji words appears on the screen. You can select a word from the list, or you can convert the text to Kanji or Katakana.

Your device is designed to 'learn' new character combinations as you type. After you type a word, a list of possible next words appears on the screen.

Your device is also designed to support many Japanese symbols. The most common symbols appear in the symbol list on your device. You can type symbols that do not appear in the symbol list using the character codes that are available in the user guide for your device.

Type text in Japanese

1.Press the letter key for each letter in a word.

2.Perform one of the following actions:

•To accept the Hiragana text, press the Enter key.

•To convert the text to Kanji or Katakana, press the Space key.

•To convert the text to English, click the English text in the list that appears when you type.

To increase the length of a segment, press the End key. To decrease the length of a segment, press the Send key.

Type a symbol in Japanese

1.Press the Symbol key.

2.Perform one of the following actions:

•To type a symbol that appears in the symbol list, type the letter that appears under the symbol.

•To type a symbol that does not appear in the symbol list, in the character code field, type the character code for the symbol.

•To switch character encodings, click the character encoding field that appears beside the character code field.

To view a list of character codes for Japanese symbols, visit www.blackberry.com/go/jptyping.

Shortcuts for typing in Japanese

•To switch typing input formats, press the Right Convenience key.

•To convert text from Hiragana to Kanji or Katakana, press the Space key.

•To move a character in the list that appears when you type, highlight the character and press the Send key or the End key.

•To switch typing input languages quickly when typing, hold the Alt key and press the Enter key.

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