Input Method Editors

[Vive La République]

plz add an IME to input Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters.

[Prezidentas]

They don't even sell the Deck there lmao

[my new friend]

Originally posted by Vive La République:

plz add an IME to input Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1675200/discussions/2/

[Marlock]

Originally posted by Red Star Gopnik:

They don't even sell the Deck there lmao

do zero chinese, japanese and korean writing people live in other countries?

will Valve stop making and supporting the Deck before selling in those countries?

[Vive La République]

Originally posted by Red Star Gopnik:

They don't even sell the Deck there lmao

Fun fact, steam deck support those languages. only the input is not supported.

[Buju]

If anyone else is having trouble figuring out how to make the Steam Deck desktop mode with KDE Plasma have the usual style of Japanese text input that can be found on Windows and macOS using an external USB keyboard, I was able to figure it out. Here's what I did.

I successfully installed "Fcitx 5" and "Mozc for Fcitx 5" from Discovery, both served as flatpaks by Flathub. After that, I could run "Fcitx 5" from the KDE Plasma application launcher (effectively the "start menu"), then right-click it in the system tray and click "Configure" to configure it. I then added "mozc" as an input method. After that, the keyboard text input seemed to be broken and I couldn't type anything, but I right-clicked the system tray icon again and clicked "Restart". After that, it worked and I could enter Japanese text in the same way I could do on Windows and macOS, right on the Steam Deck.

I was able to edit a Japanese PDF form in LibreOffice Draw, right on the Steam Deck, which was very useful for me while visiting Japan!

By the way, I could add Mozc to both the QWERTY and Dvorak "groups" to be able to type it with QWERTY (which my wife uses) and Dvorak (which I use). So, if you were worried that as a Dvorak user, you're left behind on Linux and/or the Steam Deck's desktop mode, worry not. It's very accessible if you know the right tools to install and use.

[DaVince]

Coming in here to +1 Buju, whose solution worked perfectly. Thanks a lot!

[Buju]

I'm glad my comment helped someone. It took me hours to figure out how to do it, and I was unsure of myself every step of the way since the necessary software has very poor naming. I hope Valve can ship a solution by default on SteamOS some day, so that nobody has to web-search for this solution and instead can immediately use Japanese on the Steam Deck just like they could use it on Windows and macOS.

[Vive La République]

Originally posted by Buju:

I'm glad my comment helped someone. It took me hours to figure out how to do it, and I was unsure of myself every step of the way since the necessary software has very poor naming. I hope Valve can ship a solution by default on SteamOS some day, so that nobody has to web-search for this solution and instead can immediately use Japanese on the Steam Deck just like they could use it on Windows and macOS.

this thread exist since last year, now a day, this is not an issue anymore.
you can directly go to "settings" > "keyboard" and edit "active keyboards", then you can add japanese or what ever supported languages you want to the keyboard, easy like on your phone.

[Buju]

I think you're thinking of the on-screen keyboard. My comment is from literally the last day of last year and it was still a problem at that time. I'm pretty sure it's still a problem right now with any physical keyboard.

[DaVince]

Yep, I wanted it for a physical keyboard. I already had it set up for the touchscreen keyboard the moment they introduced that feature.

[Violin]

Originally posted by Buju:

If anyone else is having trouble figuring out how to make the Steam Deck desktop mode with KDE Plasma have the usual style of Japanese text input that can be found on Windows and macOS using an external USB keyboard, I was able to figure it out. Here's what I did.

I successfully installed "Fcitx 5" and "Mozc for Fcitx 5" from Discovery, both served as flatpaks by Flathub. After that, I could run "Fcitx 5" from the KDE Plasma application launcher (effectively the "start menu"), then right-click it in the system tray and click "Configure" to configure it. I then added "mozc" as an input method. After that, the keyboard text input seemed to be broken and I couldn't type anything, but I right-clicked the system tray icon again and clicked "Restart". After that, it worked and I could enter Japanese text in the same way I could do on Windows and macOS, right on the Steam Deck.

I was able to edit a Japanese PDF form in LibreOffice Draw, right on the Steam Deck, which was very useful for me while visiting Japan!

By the way, I could add Mozc to both the QWERTY and Dvorak "groups" to be able to type it with QWERTY (which my wife uses) and Dvorak (which I use). So, if you were worried that as a Dvorak user, you're left behind on Linux and/or the Steam Deck's desktop mode, worry not. It's very accessible if you know the right tools to install and use.

Thank you so much, this worked for me too. I even contacted steam customer support, and they didn`t know what to do.