Japanese Kanji input with Snow Leopard Trackpad Handwriting

Showing how to enable trackpad handwriting feature in Snow Leopard and testing out Japanese Kanji input.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Snow
• Leopard
• Japanese
• Kanji
• Handwriting

[monodistortion]

日本語

漢字

舞

So you are just entering traditional Chinese from the trackpad? I've heard some of the kanji are different from the Chinese characters.

This looks like a good way to look up a word if you don't know the romaji.

[yakiningen]

thats very nice and all, but japanese input without kana is utterly useless. is there any way to enable kana?

[kiriyamashuuichirou]

@comchan Looks like Apple has addressed this issue since you posted. "渋" now works. I've tried all the examples of uniquely Japanese characters found in Wikipedia's kanji article too and they work as well.

[ColonelDusty08]

that is awesome! I never knew you could do that! Thanks bro.

[comchan]

That trackpad recognition only recognize Traditional Chinese.

Try this

渋谷

It won't be able to recognize "渋" because it's a Japanese Kanji but not a Traditional Chinese character

[Averyfane]

this was kind of a fail

[Bixtin]

Only late-2008 and later macbooks have the multi-touch trackpads. I have a mid-2007 MBP and I'm rather irritated that I can't use this.

[catbear77]

Same here...I don't think this feature is available for us. Our MBP only supports 2 multitouch while the unibody does 3 at least...

[japanfreak20]

I'm running snow leopard on a Macbook Pro (non-unibody) and there's no "Trackpad Handwriting" under "Chinese - Traditional"

Am I doing something wrong? Does the non-unibody Pro even have multi-touch?

[futnuh]

Came here via the koohii forum. Thanks for posting. I just spent 30 minutes drawing kanji into the search bar of denshi jisho.