What you're seeing is called "henkan", which I'd translate as "conversion". It's the usual way to input Japanese, though there are many others. Back in the 1980's, I had a kanji tablet with over 1000 characters on my desk, to be located and selected one-by-one. Henkan is a better technique. Japanese henkan pioneered the technique we see in Android input of adaptive prediction of candidate completions and corrections.
Android supports multiple input methods, including custom ones that can be downloaded from the Market, and multiple input methods for the same language. These are enabled. disabled, and configured in Settings / Languages & keyboard settings. (I see you've already figured out how to disable it between when I started this post, and completed it. I'll send it anyway, since the info will be helpful for people who DO want to use other languages and input methods). You can easily switch between languages. Just press and hold the ?123 key, and choose Input Method. In other languages, it is likely not labelled ?123, but you can find it easily. It should be in roughly the same location (lower left corner). In Japanese it will likely be labelled 文字. It's good to know how to enter at least a bit of random Japanese for testing purposes. If an application preserves Japanese correctly, it's handling Unicode, so probably basically works for every language to that extent. (UI is a different problem!). You can enter "nihongo", which will convert first to にほんご and then to 日本語. Either string is satisfactory for testing purposes. (日本語 means "Japanese language"). On Apr 27, 10:21 pm, SeriousCoder <[email protected]> wrote: > Guys, > > I've written this small app, nothing special it just contains an > edittextview control and the strange thing is that when I type text on > this textbox it converts english characters into chinese (or japanese, > i can't tell) characters. Can someone please help me fix this , it's > highly irritating. > > Thank you. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
