How to write Japanese in GIMP text layer?



How to write Japanese in GIMP text layer?


Question

I am using mac 10.10. My keyboard input source is set to Hiragana, but when I type into a Gimp text layer, the regular latin characters appear and not the Japanese that I expected. How do I get this to work?

2018/08/10
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8/10/2018 4:22:00 PM

I just entered it in Google (just a text field I can copy-paste out of quickly) and copy-pasted. It worked with the sans-serif font, and I was satisfied.

This was on Linux, though, so maybe something prevented conversion?

2018/08/10
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8/10/2018 4:21:00 PM