Ned Deily added the comment:
tkinter-based apps depend on the underlying Tk widget for text processing. I
know nothing about the various Japanese input methods on OS X but, in spot
checking of a few, I observed no visual feedback with Katakana selected until I
pressed the Return key, at which
New submission from rovf:
When I enter Japanese text in a tkinter entry widget, I don't get any visual
feedback while typing; in particular, I don't get the Kanji selection box of
the Kotaeri input method, which makes it impossible to choose the correct Kanji
(try, for example, to type the wor