f vi and a bash shell are totally foreign to you, jump to that page
whether you are command line (and vi) -friendly:

 

1. Jailbreak your iPhone, and install the following packages -

1 • BSD Subsystem
2 • Term-vt100
3 • Erica’s Utilities (be certain to edit your path to include /var/root/bin)

2. Fire up the terminal app on your phone and…

cd ~/Library/Preferences
plutil -c xml1 .GlobalPreferences.plist
vi .GlobalPreferences.plist

3. Find the following text:

<array>
<string>en US</string>
</array>
…and edit it to




add a line so it looks like that:

<array>
<string>en US</string>
<string>ja</string>
</array>

4. Save and close the Terminal app.

When you visit any application that uses a keyboard now, there will be a globe next to the ‘123’ characters key. Selecting that will alternate amidst your US and Japanese keyboards. The Japanese keyboard is pretty easy to distinguish, considering it is compressed to form room for a kanji/kana suggestion field, and has a expanded hyphen to the right of the ‘L’ key.

 

– 頑張ってください!

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  • 2 Comments to “Hack your iPhone to type in Kanji and Kana”

    1. on 12 Dec 2007 at 11:10 pmVal

      what if there’s no globalprefs file? it’s just not there. although I’ve enabled to view hidden files and so on. terminal also doesn’t see it

    2. on 08 Mar 2008 at 7:18 amnanaca

      HI. i really want to type in japanese and send to friends in Japan by iphone.
      but i really dont know how to work,, would you please give me more info?
      Thanks

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