I've come to realize that I'm unable to type japanese characters into the search bar.
I'm using uim with mozc on Arch Linux, I thought that perhaps the problem was the key combination to activate mozc being Shift+Space not being valid, as only a space character was inputted into the search bar, but trying other combinations like Alt+Tab, Ctrl+Tab, Ctrl+CapsLock seem to not work as well. Copy pasting japanese characters into the search bar works though, just not directly typing them.
If anyone knows a fix to this please let me know!
Probably only mildly related to my issue back then but since now I'm using NixOS and I faced a similar issue I'll just close this one and leave this backlink here.
I've come to realize that I'm unable to type japanese characters into the search bar. I'm using uim with mozc on Arch Linux, I thought that perhaps the problem was the key combination to activate mozc being Shift+Space not being valid, as only a space character was inputted into the search bar, but trying other combinations like Alt+Tab, Ctrl+Tab, Ctrl+CapsLock seem to not work as well. Copy pasting japanese characters into the search bar works though, just not directly typing them. If anyone knows a fix to this please let me know!