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Japanese input methods
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2014–2022), in 4 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Japanese input methods, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 6 complaints
- Voiced and small kana need many extra modifier taps, making typing slower than romaji2022-10-10
- Conversion changes the sentence unpredictably as you type, so text ends up different from what was intended2021-07-26
- Fixing a typo mid-sentence messes up the surrounding characters2021-07-26
- Typing half-width characters into a field that requires full-width causes annoying rejections2021-07-26
- Commenter struggles to find a nice input method setup for Japanese and Chinese2019-10-29
- Backspace is hard to reach from the home row, worse with shrunken key2014-01-17