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Windows Terminal Hangs When Using the Japanese IME
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- Daisuke Kobayashi
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At work I use Windows and rely on Windows Terminal. Recently, when I was running Debian on WSL2 inside Windows Terminal (v1.18.3181.0), the terminal kept hanging and it was becoming a real problem. I did not know the cause at first, but when it happened again today I noticed that it only froze while I was entering Japanese text. After looking into it, I found the following issue.
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/14349#issuecomment-1710232555
I have not read through the full issue, but I found a note saying that turning off Use previous version of Microsoft IME resolves the problem. I suspected the same setting might be behind the behavior I was seeing, and after trying it, the fix worked. Normally Windows Terminal would hang almost immediately when I entered Japanese text, but after turning that setting off, it stopped hanging.