Windows 10: Curious about option in Japanese IME input settings

I'm just curious what the "Switch Kana/Romaji input with Alt + Katakana Hiragana Romaji key" toggle means. I can't seem to find anything online.

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How set French display and Japanese IME input by default

Hi

I'm French and I've bought a japanese ultrabook. I'm under Windows 10.

I want set the display language to french but i want also keep Japanese IME input method to keep the real layout of keyboard.

But it seems to be no solution to do this. Just i can set french display and set Japanese keyboard... not Japanese IME input method...

It's boring because the Japanese keyboard in French language don't match with JIS layout.

Is there any solution ?

Thanks a lots

 

IME Japanese input

So, set up Japanese as my second input. Each time I hit alt + shift, it will switch to Japanese. However the annoying issue I am dealing with is when it switches to Japanese mode, it is in alphanumeric not hirigana mode, which is extremely annoying because
if someone switches to Japanese mode, of course, they want to start typing in Japanese, not English, so to switch to hirigana I have to hit CTL + CAPS LOCK, which is annoying to have to do two keyboard shortcuts, why can't I have it default in hirigana mode
when I hit alt + shift, instead of alphanumeric?? Is there a way to make hirigana the default option when switching to Japanese IME? Let me know thanks.

 

Japanese IME with German QWERTZ-Layout

Thanks for the reply,

I did add the input language japanese(日本語), as well as german(Deutsch (Deutschland)), english and french.

In the options screen for japanese, I only have the option to:

• download handwriting
• further settings for speech recognition
• change layout of hardware keyboard (only japanese and english keyboard available)
• remove/add new keyboard (Microsoft-IME or third party IME)
• configure Microsoft-IME

Thus I assume the language package has already been intalled.

In Region & language in the language list, there is also written that the language pack is installed for japanese.

I am looking forward to your help.