I think he was thinking of the v2 edition where, with ktrans, you could hit a ctrl seq and switch into different modes. I assume that functionality was always part of ktrans itself, in other words after it's started it is always running and handles whether or not to do translation. > > When I input Japanese like below: > > > > term% 日本語の入力の練習です。 > > > > > > I cannot now return to rc shell. > > I don't understand. Do you want just to enter one line of Japanese text? > The idea was to switch the mode of /dev/cons permanently. I assumed > your Japanese input methods could provide both ASCII and Japanese text.