First post: switch input language

Good morning from Japan

I think I tried Abiword before, but could not come to terms with it.
Now I am trying again (desperately trying to get away from MS).

1. I use three languages: German, English and Japanese.
Switching the keyboard layout and thus input language between English
and German is no problem.
But when I switch to Japanese input, I get a tiny little (input) window
in the left upper corner,
allowing to show only a few characters. Hitting Enter then inserts those
into the document.
BUT, they are shown only as squares = I have to manually change font
each time.

Every other wordprocessor I know of (MS Word, OpenOffice/Libreoffice
Writer, Wordpad, Jarte, Polyedit Lite, even WordPerfect, which basically
cannot handle Japanese) "automatically" switches to input on the main
screen AND shows the entered characters.

Is there a trick that will enable Abiword to do the same?
If there isn't, it will cause a lot of unnecessary work (not very
appealing).

If I may ask one more question.
I know ther ARE spelling dictionaries for languages other than English
and downloaded the one for German,
but could not yet figure out how to install it.
I found somewhere on the website something that looks like programming
to me.
= way beyond my capabilities.

Is there a way to do something like "click - install - finish" for this?

Thank you in advance
Thomas
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