When the external program performs the operation, the various methods defined in this file are called.įor the Japanese language support, I implemented setMarkedText and insertText, which put the Japanese characters sent by the Input method into the GHOST event and pushed it.

And interpretKeyEvents are for external programs (such as Input method for Japanese) to perform various operations on the input characters.

HandleKeyEvent is the one that processes the input characters as they are, just like in English.

Mac OS keyboard events are first handled by the keyDown method of this file. I followed the NSTextInputClient protocol and implemented the appropriate methods.įor more technical details, Apple's official documentation may be of help I did a lot of work on intern/ghost/intern/GHOST_WindowViewCocoa.h. Again, it can be pasted from the clipboard, but not typed. There is no way to type Japanese into a text object, even when a Japanese font (such as KozGoPr6n-Regular) is selected.

Next, try to create a Text object and type Japanese text in it.

Try to rename the default cube object to 'あか' or '赤' and you will find it is impossible. Converting further to kanji will produce results such as '赤'. Now when you type 'aka' (meaning red) it should concert to 'あか'. Use the icon in the Menu Bar to switch to Hiragana input (represented by an あ character).

Confirm Japanese text input is working.

Enable Japanese text input (sometimes referred to as 'Kotoeri').

System Preferences > Language & Text > Input Sources (may vary depending on OS version)

Enable Japanese text input on the Mac.

You can however paste Japanese text from the clipboard and it works.Įxact steps for others to reproduce the error but you will not be able to directly rename it to another Japanese name. If you go to Blender User Preferences > System and enable International Fonts for Japanese in all three available categories you will find that Blender will add new objects with Japanese names - instead of 'Cube' you will get '立方体'. This lack of support is a pity, considering that Blender is otherwise fully supporting Japanese translation of menu items and such. This may pertain to other Asian languages as well, but I have not verified it. Note that Japanese text input appears to work fine on Windows builds. In almost any other Mac application, when the input source is switched to Japanese the application can accept Japanese text. Broken: all versions (as far as I know), including 2.78īlender is unable to accept Japanese text input.

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