Omarchy is already being translated into 50 languages. Now it’s learning to type the hard ones properly. A PR titled “Perfect Japanese, Chinese and Korean setups,” merged by DHH on October 15, lands in the next version.
The fixes
- Menu search works with input methods. Fcitx never engaged in the Omarchy menu search before, so Mozc, Hangul, Pinyin or Chewing users just got raw romaji. A new FilterInput component renders preedit text in place.
- Consistent glyph forms. Han characters differ between Japanese, Korean, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and apps disagreed on which to draw. Omarchy now defaults to Noto CJK JP after its Latin fonts, and a new
omarchy font cjk [jp|kr|sc|tc|hk|default]command (plus a Style > Font menu entry) lets you switch. Hong Kong forms were previously unreachable. - Language and input go together. Picking Japanese, Korean or Chinese under Setup > Language also adds the matching input engine.
- Keyboards. Two-set Hangul, Zhuyin and Cangjie stay on their QWERTY positions for Dvorak, Colemak, AZERTY and QWERTZ users.
My take
Translation gets the headlines, but input is where a desktop either works for someone or doesn’t. This builds nicely on Omarchy’s 50-language push.
